This book is intended to be a primer for those just beginning to study nursing informatics, simultaneously providing a thorough introduction to basic terms and concepts, and an in-depth exploration of the most popular applications in nursing practice, education, administration and research.

Like its best-selling predecessors, this book is an indispensable primer for those new to nursing informatics Provides a thorough introduction to basic terms and concepts, as well as an in-depth exploration of the most prevalent applications in nursing practice, education, administration, and research Expanded and revised to reflect the remarkable technical advancements achieved in health care in recent years, this new edition includes 7 Appendices covering a wide range of topics such as: Nursing Informatics Special Interest Groups; Academic Informatics Programs Worldwide; Transforming Clinical Documentation: Preparing Nurses for Change, etc.

Inhalt
Foundations of Nursing Informatics.- Nurses and Informatics.- Anatomy and Physiology of Computers.- History of Healthcare Computing.- Telecommunications and Informatics.- Nursing Use of Information Systems.- Enterprise Health Information Systems.- Nursing Aspects of Health Information Systems.- Applications of Nursing Informatics.- Clinical Practice Applications: Facility Based.- Clinical Practice Applications: Community Based.- Administration Applications.- Education Applications.- Research Applications.- Infrastructure Elements of the Informatics Environment.- Nursing Data Standards.- Defining Information Management Requirements.- Selection of Software and Hardware.- Data Protection.- Ergonomics.- Disaster Recovery Planning.- Implementation Concerns.- A Process Redesign Approach to Successful IT Implementation.- Professional Nursing Informatics.- Nursing Informatics Education: Past, Present, and Future.- The Future for Nurses in Health Informatics.