Essentials of Nursing Informatics, 7th Edition

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments

Part 1 — Nursing Informatics Technologies
   1. Historical Perspectives of Nursing Informatics
   2. Computer Systems Basics—Hardware
   3. Advanced Hardware and mHealth
   4. Computer Systems Basics—Software
   5. Open Source and Free Software
   6. Data and Data Processing

Part 2 — System Standards
   7. Health Data Standards: Development, Harmonization, and Interoperability
   8. Standardized Nursing Terminologies
   9. Human–Computer Interaction
   10. Trustworthy Systems for Safe and Private Healthcare
   11. Social Determinants of Health, Electronic Health Records, and Health Outcomes

Part 3 — System Life Cycle
   12. System Design Life Cycle: A Framework
   13. System and Functional Testing
   14. System Life Cycle Tools

Part 4 — Informatics Theory Standards
   15. Healthcare Project Management
   16. The Practice Specialty of Nursing Informatics
   17. Foundations of Nursing Informatics

Part 5 — Policies and Quality Measures in Healthcare
   18. Establishing Nursing Informatics in Public Policy
   19. Quality Measurement and the Importance of Nursing Informatics
   20. Using Six Sigma and Lean for Measuring Quality
   21. Informatics Applications to Support Rural and Remote Health
   22. Communication Skills in Health IT, Building Strong Teams for Successful Health IT Outcomes
   23. Nurse Scheduling and Credentialing Systems
   24. Mastering Skills that Support Nursing Practice

Part 6 — Nursing Practice Applications
   25. Translation of Evidence into Nursing Practice
   26. Improving Healthcare Quality and Patient Outcomes Through the Integration of Evidence-Based Practice and Informatics
   27. Nursing Plan of Care Framework for HIT
   28. Structuring Advanced Practice Knowledge: Curricular, Practice, and Internet Resource Use
   29. Beyond EMR Implementation: Optimize and Enhance
   30. Federal Healthcare Sector Nursing Informatics
   31. Monitoring Interoperability, Device Interface, and Security
   32. Population Health Informatics
   33. Informatics Solutions for Emergency Planning and Response
   34. Health Information Technology: Striving to Improve Patient Safety
   35. Consumer Patient Engagement and Connectivity in Patients with Chronic Disease in the Community and at Home

Part 7 — Advanced Applications for the Fourth Nursing IT Revolution
   36. New Models of Healthcare Delivery and Retailers Producing Big Data
   37. Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
   38. Telehealth: Healthcare Evolution in the Technology Age
   39. Nursing’s Role in Genomics and Information Technology for Precision Health
   40. Big Data Analysis of Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data
   41. Nursing Data Science and Quality Clinical Outcomes
   42. Nursing Informatics Innovations to Improve Quality Patient Care on Many Continents
   43. Global eHealth and Informatics

Part 8 — Educational Applications
   44. Nursing Curriculum Reform and Healthcare Information Technology
   45. The Evolution of the TIGER Initiative
   46. Initiation and Management of Accessible, Effective Online Learning
   47. Social Media Tools in the Connected Age
   48. A Paradigm Shift in Simulation: Experiential Learning in Virtual Worlds and Future Use of Virtual Reality, Robotics, and Drones

Part 9 — Research Applications
   49. Computer Use in Nursing Research
   50. Information Literacy and Computerized Information Resources

Appendix Clinical Care Classification (CCC) System: Overview, Applications, and Analyses
Index

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Essentials of Nursing Informatics provides the information and insights readers need to manage and process data to improve the quality and outcomes of healthcare. Topics include the use of computers in nursing administration, practice, education, and research; computer systems and information theory; electronic medical records, continuum of care information technology systems, and personal health records; coding; and government, clinical, and private sector system requirements. 

This revised and updated edition covers the latest changes in technology, administration, policy, and their effects on healthcare informatics in the U.S., with contributing international authors from Canada, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. The seventh edition includes section summaries, and each chapter includes sample test questions and answers. 

This updated seventh edition covers:

• Nursing Informatics Technologies
• Nursing Practice Applications
• System Standards
• Advanced Applications for the 4th Nursing IT Revolution
• System Life Cycle
• Educational Applications
• Informatics Theory Standards
• Research Applications
• Policies and Quality Measures in Healthcare