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Leadership & Management • Issues & Trends
Informatics and Nursing: Opportunities and Challenges,
Fifth Edition, International Edition
Jeanne P. Sewell, RN, MSN
978-1-4963-0893-1 • October 2015 • Softbound • 7” x 9” • 512 pp
978-1-4511-9320-6 • North American Edition : Available in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands only
Informatics and Nursing: Opportunities and Challenges
is a
comprehensive informatics text focused on helping the nursing student
learn the basics of informatics. The contents proceed from Unit One
which covers computer basics to Unit Five which examines skills and
techniques for using the end product of informatics: data. The text
provides the foundational knowledge to understand technology and
use informatics to discover and manipulate information and access,
manage, retrieve, and present clinical data. This text was designed
to capture cutting-edge advancement in nursing informatics core
competencies and applications and to present the theories, tools, and
skills that every nurse should know. The new edition has been updated
for currency and has had chapters reorganized and consolidated to help
students focus on important information. In addition, the book is now
full color, has QSEN boxes, as well as additional supplements such as
case studies and activities.
Features
Student Resources
• Journal Articles
• Learning Objectives
• Audio Glossaries
• Carrington Professional Guide
• Internet Resources
• Reference Materials: Abbreviations
• Suggested Readings
Instructor Resources
• E-Book
• Test Generator
• PowerPoint Presentations
• Image Banks
• LMS Course Cartridges
• QSEN Competency KSAs
• Case Studies
• Strategies for Effective Teaching
• Answers
• Competency Mapping
Table of Contents
UNIT I: Informatics Basics
1. Introduction to Nursing Informatics:
Managing Healthcare Information
2. Essential Computer and Software
Concepts
3. Basic Computer Networking Concepts
4. Social and Professional Networking
UNIT II: Computers Applications for Your
Professional Career
5. Authoring Scholarly Word Documents
6. Authoring Scholarly Slide Presentations
7. Mastering Spreadsheet Software to Assess
Quality Outcomes Using Numbers
8. Databases: Creating Information From
Data
UNIT III: Information Competency
9. Information Literacy: A Road to
Evidence-Based Practice
10. Finding Knowledge in the Digital Library
Haystack
11. Mobile Computing
UNIT IV: The Evolving Healthcare
Paradigm
12. Informatics Benefits for the Consumer
13. The Empowered Consumer
14. Interoperability at the National and the
International Levels
15. Nursing Documentation in the Age of
the Electronic Health Record
UNIT V: Healthcare Informatics
16. Nursing Informatics: Theoretical Basis,
Education Program, and Profession
17. Electronic Healthcare Information
Systems, Electronic Health Records, and
Meaningful Use
18. Design Considerations for Healthcare
Information Systems
19. Quality Measures and Specialized
Electronic Healthcare Information
Systems
20. Electronic Healthcare System Issues
21. Evolving Trends in Telehealth
UNIT VI: Computer Uses in Healthcare
Beyond Clinical Informatic
s
22. Educational Informatics: e-Learning
23. Informatics in Management and Quality
Improvement
24. Informatics and Research
25. Legal and Ethical Issues
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