The TIGER initiative aims to enable practicing nurses and nursing students to fully engage in the unfolding digital electronic era in healthcare. The purpose of the initiative is, to identify information/knowledge management best practices and effective technology capabilities for nurses. TIGER’s goal is to create and disseminate local and global action plans that can be duplicated within nursing and other multidisciplinary healthcare training and workplace settings.  

The TIGER Initiative is working to catalyze a dynamic, sustainable and productive relationship between the Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI), with its 20 nursing informatics professional societies and the major nursing organizations including the American Nurses Association (ANA), the Association of Nurse Executives (AONE), the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), and others which collectively represent over 2,000,000 nurses.

Nursing informatics leaders from across the profession are committing their energies to this Initiative, bringing depth and breadth in support of its goals. Together they are planning, organizing and facilitating an invitational summit that will bring together major nursing organizations and ANI to address informatics education and practice reform for nursing students and practicing nurses. TIGER is seeking partnership with a leading publisher in order to communicate summit findings broadly to the entire nursing community.

The Summit, titled Evidence and Informatics Transforming Nursing, will come at a time when the nation is working full-speed to realize the 10-year goal of electronic health records for its citizens. This is a critical juncture for the nurses, who comprise 55% of the healthcare workforce. They must become more involved at every level or the Informatics Revolution will pass the nursing profession by, to the detriment of healthcare consumers

The Summit is by invitation only in order to insure there is representation from all nursing sectors and because participants will be required to work on Summit business before, during and after the Summit.