Overview
This significantly revised 5th edition provides nurses with a practical guide to the fundamental concepts of digital health from a nursing perspective. Nursing informatics has never been more important as contemporary healthcare continues to experience tremendous technological advances. The nursing profession is ideally positioned as a key enabler for the design and adoption of emerging eHealth models of care and quality outcomes. The book also features real world examples to illustrate the theory and encourages readers to think critically about their current practices and how they can potentially integrate relevant theories and techniques into their future practice to advance integrated care. Introduction to Nursing Informatics is designed for use as a primer for practicing nurses and students in undergraduate programs of study and includes contributions from leading international experts who have practiced in the field over a number of years. The information ispresented and integrated in a purposeful manner to encourage readers to explore the key concepts of nursing practice, digital health, health information management and its relationship to informatics.
Full Product Details
Author: Pamela Hussey ,
Margaret Ann Kennedy
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition: 5th ed. 2021
Weight: 0.676kg
ISBN: 9783030587420
ISBN 10: 3030587428
Pages: 427
Publication Date: 06 January 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
A book that teaches nurses about technology and the way nursing is changing at a rapid rate is definitely needed and the book does meet those objectives. It offers plenty of vocabulary and explanations to help nurses and nursing students understand many new and complex technological concepts. (Karen OGrady, Doody's Book Reviews, June 4, 2021)
Author Information
Dr. Pamela Hussey is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for eIntegrated Care at Dublin City University. Her current research activity relates to testing, deployment and reporting on health informatics standards. She acts as an advisor to different agencies on topics relating to semantic and syntactic interoperability on integrated care. Dr. Hussey's teaching interests include; health informatics, concepts and terminology, as well as the creation and use of technology enhanced learning in undergraduate and post graduate education. Dr. Margaret Ann Kennedy is Chief Nursing Informatics Officer based in Gevity’s Center of Excellence. She holds a PhD in Nursing from the University of South Australia, a Master of Nursing from Dalhousie University (Canada), a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from St. Francis Xavier University (Canada), and a Post Graduate Certificate in Standards for Health Informatics from the University of Sherbrooke (Canada).
