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Handbook of Informatics for Nurses & Healthcare Professionals, 7th edition

Published by Pearson (August 8, 2023) © 2024

  • Toni L. Hebda
  • Melody Rose
  • Kathleen Hunter
  • Patricia Czar

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For courses in nursing informatics.

A practical guide to using computer applications and informatics in the healthcare workplace

Handbook of Informatics for Nurses & Healthcare Professionals examines key issues in adopting and applying healthcare IT and nursing informatics. Contributing authors cover the concepts, skills and tasks needed to achieve national IT goals to help transform healthcare delivery.

The 7th Edition reflects rapid changes in healthcare IT and informatics. It looks at how the global pandemic has forced a re-examination of healthcare and healthcare delivery, escalated the deployment of IT to track infection and support care, and paved the way for a greater role for nursing and healthcare informatics.

Hallmark features of this title

Applications of healthcare IT

  • Students learn to use advanced technologies such as Web 2.0 solutions, virtual training, integrated “smart technologies” and robotics.
  • IT in new healthcare delivery systems is covered in the context of magnet hospitals, patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organizations.
  • HIPAA coverage helps students use patient-related IT tools without compromising patient privacy.

Exam prep and industry insight

  • American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) recommends this title as a review resource for the ANCC nursing informatics certification exam.
  • Future Directions sections at the end of each chapter forecast the evolution of chapter topics.
  • Case Study exercises at the end of each chapter discuss real applications of concepts.

New and updated features of this title

Major revisions to content and organization

  • REVISED: All chapters have been thoroughly revised to reflect the current and evolving practice of healthcare IT and informatics.
  • REVISED: The 7th Edition streamlines content by combining chapters with topics that fit together, adding content related to global healthcare, and adding information on the internet to new appendices.
  • REVISED: This edition reworks previous content on information systems training and presents it within the context of workforce development.

New topics in healthcare IT and informatics

  • NEW: A new Chapter 3 discusses the challenges of technology in healthcare.
  • NEW: A new Chapter 20 considers potential future directions of nursing informatics nationally and internationally.
  • NEW: New content topics include equitable, inclusive healthcare; genomics to improve population health; international collaborations in the field of healthcare informatics; and avoidance of structural, systemic and institutional racism.
  1. An Overview of Informatics in Healthcare
  2. Informatics Theory and Practice
  3. The Challenges of Technology in Healthcare
  4. Electronic Resources for Healthcare Professionals
  5. Using Informatics to Support Evidence-Based Practice and Research
  6. Policy, Legislation, and Regulation Issues for Informatics Practice
  7. Electronic Health Information and Record Systems
  8. Strategic Planning and Project Management Concepts for HIT and Quality Improvement Initiatives
  9. Healthcare Information Technology: Implementation, Maintenance, and Evaluation
  10. Improving the Usability of Health Informatics Applications
  11. Information Networks and Information Exchange
  12. Workforce Development
  13. Information Security and Confidentiality
  14. Continuity Planning and Management and Disaster Recovery
  15. The Role of Standardized Terminology and Language in Informatics
  16. Using Informatics to Educate
  17. Consumer Health Informatics
  18. Connected Healthcare (Telehealth and Technology-Enabled Healthcare)
  19. Public Health Informatics
  20. A Glimpse into the Future of Nursing Informatics

APPENDICES

  1. Hardware and Software
  2. Networks, Network Security
  3. An Overview of Tools for the Informatics Nurse

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About our authors

Toni Hebda, PhD, RN-C, CNE, is a professor with the Chamberlain College of Nursing MSN Program, teaching in the nursing informatics track. She has held several academic and clinical positions over the years and worked as a system analyst. Her interest in informatics provided a focus for her dissertation, and subsequently led her to help establish a regional nursing informatics group, obtain a graduate degree in information science, and conduct research related to informatics. She is a reviewer for the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics. She is a member of informatics groups and has presented and published in the field.

Melody Rose, DNP, RN, CPHIMS, is an adjunct instructor with Franklin University in the MS Health Informatics and DS Healthcare Administration programs, as well as a practicing clinician in the field of Healthcare Informatics. She is a 2014 graduate of Duke University School of Nursing DNP program and a 2011 graduate of Walden University School of Nursing MSN, Informatics Specialty. Dr. Rose has organized health informatics seminars, presented implementation strategy lectures for a major pharmaceutical company, and lectured internationally in the field of Nursing Informatics.

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