TIGER Summit
October 30-November 1
2006
Uniformed Services University
of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, Maryland

The invitation-only Summit, Evidence and Informatics Transforming Nursing, comes at a time when the nation is working full-speed to realize the 10-year goal of Electronic Health Records (EHR) for its citizens.  This is a critical juncture for nurses, who comprise 55% of the health care workforce.  They must become more involved at every level, or the Informatics Revolution will pass the nursing profession by, to the detriment of health care consumers.

This event gathered over 120 leaders from the nation's nursing practice, education, informatics/technology organizations, government agencies, and other key stakeholders around a singular exploratory focus:

Creating a vision for the future of nursing that bridges the quality chasm with information technology (IT), enabling nurses to use informatics in practice and education to provide safer, high-quality patient care.

Our goal over the Summit's two days was to create a 10-year vision and 3-year local and global action plan for transforming nursing practice and education to better prepare nurses to practice in an increasingly automated, informatics-rich, and consumer-driven health care environment.

The two-day agenda incorporated keynote presentations, panel discussions, case study exemplars, large and small group dialog, audience response technology (electronic voting), experiential learning (Gallery Walk), as well as open-space facilitation with real-time graphic recording to maximize output from the 120 participants.