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192 pages · 2024

Catalog title1st Edition

Nursing Informatics

Truths, Talent, and Transforming the Future

By Whende M. Carroll

Published
June 3, 2024
Imprint
Productivity Press
Edition
1st Edition
ISBN
9781003202882

Overview

About this book

Expert nurse technology pioneers, emerging leaders, and award-winning informatics nurses provide practicing and aspiring nurse informaticists with an acute understanding of current and evolving healthcare trends and roles and how healthcare organizations and industry leaders benefit from nurses' informatics talent – essential skills, knowledge, wisdom, and contributions – to add immense value in the current and future healthcare technology landscape.

This book moves beyond the current informatics literature. It is a platform to inspire nursing informaticists to confidently create, advocate for, and manage their presence in the healthcare technology industry. It furthers the understanding of nursing's value, knowledge, and abilities, the nursing informatics specialty, and how nurses, as end users of technology and the patient's voice in clinical practice, are essential workers, technical developers, and implementors, leading the cultivation of innovative healthcare technology solutions. 

The content deep dives into: 

 Why nurses in technology and innovation are indispensable to solving today's key healthcare issues  Debunking nursing profession and practice falsities and how the truths prove nurses' genuine value in today's healthcare information technology industry A comprehensive look at the past, current, and future state of the nursing informatics specialty  Pitch language for why organizational leaders should begin and better utilize nurses' exceptional clinical and technology talent essential to transforming healthcare  The ways nurses intelligently use technology, knowledge, wisdom, and innovation and can harness strategies to thrive in current roles and succeed in career transitions  How emerging nursing and informatics roles catalyzed by modern technology will profoundly change the healthcare landscape

The chapters include invaluable testimonials, recommendations, resources, and influential nurse names to help readers thoughtfully evolve their nurse technology processes and roles and promote a way forward for nurse innovation, career growth, and revolutionary care delivery shifts that will take the unique informatics specialty to the next level and create a path for an equitable, fully digitized future of healthcare.

Subjects

Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Health and Social Care, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health

Inside the book

Table of contents

Select a chapter to read its abstract.

Part 1Truths

Pages: 48

No chapter abstract available.

Chapter Chapter 1The State of Nursing Informatics – Opportunities to Boldly Influence Change

Pages: 14

“There is no shortage of nursing informatics talent in healthcare technology, only a lack of understanding of what it is and how it’s applied.”

Chapter Chapter 2The Facts About Informatics Nurses' Place in Healthcare IT

Pages: 12

“Increasing our visibility and voice in society must not sit on the shoulders of a handful of nurses but instead our entire workforce.”

Chapter Chapter 3The Specialty of Nursing Informatics

Pages: 20

“Nursing informatics is a dynamic profession that continues to grow in scope and standards of practice to enable a vibrant digital health ecosystem.”

Part 2Talent

Pages: 66

No chapter abstract available.

Chapter Chapter 4What Nurse Informaticists Have and Need More Of

Pages: 16

“In comparison to other healthcare professionals, nursing emphasizes understanding the whole person and the human experience.”

Chapter Chapter 5Substantiating the Value of Nursing Informatics

Pages: 22

“There is room for all nurses in informatics, but informaticists’ talent is unique, and our value and influence are immense.”

Chapter Chapter 6Advancing Your Growth in Healthcare Information Technology

Pages: 26

“Informatics make us highly skilled, but a nursing background is the grounding foundation that gives us strength and confidence moving through uncharted waters.”

Part 3Transforming the Future

Pages: 45

No chapter abstract available.

Chapter Chapter 7Applying Innovation and New Technologies

Pages: 18

“To improve patient outcomes and end-user experience, nursing leaders need the knowledge and tools to empower the nursing workforce to embrace innovation and new technology.”

Chapter Chapter 8The Future: Where Nursing Informatics Goes From Here

Pages: 15

“Embarking on a journey of professional transformation will ensure nurse informaticists impact healthcare and create a bright and healthy future for all.”

Chapter Chapter 9Epilogue: The Best Advice You'll Ever Get

Pages: 10

There are deep perspectives within this book’s pages from nursing informatics pioneers, emerging clinical and research leaders, and award-winning authors that now arm you with the essential information that will benefit you greatly to get in the door, thrive in your current role, and position you for the future in healthcare IT. One aspect that the expert authors do not broach completely is their words of wisdom for you to do so. Here, we hear from select authors who provide valuable recommendations and advice for you as nurses and nurse technologists. Also, they enlighten our colleagues and non-clinicians – those we wish understood our essential nurse skills, knowledge, talents, unique nursing specialty, and the value we bring to healthcare better to help us create what’s next.