Let the Purpose Influence and Move You through the Day to Day

I was on a phone call last week discussing nursing, nursing informatics, and healthcare overall. During the conversation, I started to chuckle a bit and say that I do not get overly excited about spending hours each day sending and responding to emails. (I imagine that many of you can relate to this as well). However, I rarely look at emails as the goal. 

Instead, my mind is focused on the purpose of the email(s) and who I am connecting with or being connected to in an effort to help advance the work toward that collective goal. If email, phone calls, video calls, or other mechanisms help to reach that, then so be it. 

When projects get busy and time gets tight with timelines and milestones, our ability to think beyond the current moment gets a bit more challenging in the day to day. Yet, consider all of the people who you are helping through your diligent efforts and dedication to the details that working in nursing, health IT and informatics requires of you. 

We use many mechanisms to communicate today. I actually will encourage people to email me over sending a text because I find it to be a central location where I hear from people for a variety of reasons. I want to be able to maintain consistency in my communications. 

For our newsletters, we want to continue to share updates with you on a regular basis and be a resource to support your informatics and health IT roles, purposes, goals, education, preparation and more. 

With that being said, think beyond and into the future. What do you want to learn? What do you want to have more knowledge about and ability to influence for the benefit of nursing and healthcare? 

Let us know what we could consider for future programming efforts to help support you!

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Enjoy your Sunday and I hope you look at email and communications with a new lens :). 

~ Dr. Kelley