Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge, 2nd Edition

Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge, 2nd Edition

by Dee McGonigle, Kathleen Mastrian
Released August 2011
Publisher(s): Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN: 9780763792374

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Book description

Completely updated, the Second Edition of Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge covers the history of healthcare informatics, current issues, basic informatics concepts, and health information management applications. The text includes key terms, case studies, best practice examples, critical thinking exercises, and web resources.

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents (1/2)
  4. Contents (2/2)
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Authors’ Note
  8. Contributors
  9. Section I Building Blocks of Nursing Informatics
    1. Chapter 1 Nursing Science and the Foundation of Knowledge
      1. Introduction
      2. Summary
    2. Chapter 2 Introduction to Information, Information Science, and Information Systems
      1. Introduction
      2. Information
      3. Information Science
      4. Information Processing
      5. Information Science and the Foundation of Knowledge
      6. Introduction to Information Systems
      7. Information Systems
      8. Summary
    3. Chapter 3 Computer Science and the Foundation of Knowledge Model
      1. Introduction
      2. The Computer as a Tool for Managing Information and Generating Knowledge (1/4)
      3. The Computer as a Tool for Managing Information and Generating Knowledge (2/4)
      4. The Computer as a Tool for Managing Information and Generating Knowledge (3/4)
      5. The Computer as a Tool for Managing Information and Generating Knowledge (4/4)
      6. What Is the Relationship of Computer Science to Knowledge?
      7. How Does the Computer Support Collaboration and Information Exchange?
      8. What Is the Human–Technology Interface?
      9. Summary
      10. Looking to the Future
      11. Working Wisdom
      12. Application Scenario
    4. Chapter 4 Introduction to Cognitive Science and Cognitive Informatics
      1. Introduction
      2. Cognitive Science
      3. Sources of Knowledge
      4. Nature of Knowledge
      5. How Knowledge and Wisdom Are Used in Decision Making
      6. Cognitive Informatics
      7. What Is AI?
      8. Summary
    5. Chapter 5 Ethical Applications of Informatics
      1. Introduction
      2. Ethics
      3. Bioethics
      4. Ethical Dilemmas and Morals
      5. Ethical Decision Making
      6. Theoretical Approaches to Healthcare Ethics
      7. Applying Ethics to Informatics
      8. Applying the Ethical Model
      9. Case Analysis Demonstration
      10. New Frontiers in Ethical Issues
      11. Summary
  10. Section II Perspectives on Nursing Informatics (1/2)
  11. Section II Perspectives on Nursing Informatics (2/2)
    1. Chapter 6 Overview of Nursing Informatics
      1. Introduction
      2. Metastructures, Concepts, and Tools of NI (1/3)
      3. Metastructures, Concepts, and Tools of NI (2/3)
      4. Metastructures, Concepts, and Tools of NI (3/3)
      5. The Future of NI
      6. Summary
    2. Chapter 7 Developing Standardized Terminologies to Support Nursing Practice
      1. Introduction
      2. Standardized Nursing Terminologies
      3. Approaches to Nursing Terminology
      4. Exploiting Commonality Among Nursing Terminologies
      5. Using Nursing Terminologies
      6. Summary
    3. Chapter 8 Nursing Informatics Roles, Competencies, and Skills
      1. Introduction
      2. What Is NI?
      3. The Nurse as a Knowledge Worker (1/2)
      4. The Nurse as a Knowledge Worker (2/2)
      5. The Knowledge Needs and Competencies of Nurses
      6. What Is Nursing Informatics Specialty Practice? (1/2)
      7. What Is Nursing Informatics Specialty Practice? (2/2)
      8. Summary
      9. The Future of Nursing Informatics
    4. Chapter 9 Information and Knowledge Needs of Nurses in the 21st Century
      1. Introduction
      2. Case Study: Casting to the Future
      3. Informatics Defined
      4. What Is the Goal of Informatics?
      5. Health Information Technologies Impacting Nursing
      6. Nurses Creating and Deriving New Knowledge
      7. Challenges in Getting There
      8. In An Ideal World
      9. The Future
      10. Summary
    5. Chapter 10 Legislative Aspects of Nursing Informatics: HITECH and HIPAA
      1. Introduction
      2. Overview of the HITECH Act (1/2)
      3. Overview of the HITECH Act (2/2)
      4. How the HITECH Act Changed HIPAA
      5. United States and Beyond
      6. Implications for Nursing Practice
      7. Summary
    6. Chapter 11 Professional Development and Collaboration Tools
      1. Introduction
      2. What Is an Electronic Portfolio?
      3. E-Portfolios in Postsecondary Education
      4. Social Networking Versus Professional Networking
      5. E-Portfolio for Professional Development
      6. The E-Portfolio Process
      7. Challenges and Issues: Privacy and Security
      8. Summary—Why Create an E-Portfolio?
      9. What the Future Holds
  12. Section III Nursing Informatics Administrative Applications: Precare and Care Support
    1. Chapter 12 Systems Development Life Cycle: NI and Organizational Decision Making
      1. Introduction
      2. Case Scenario
      3. Waterfall Model
      4. Rapid Prototyping or Rapid Application Development
      5. Object Oriented Systems Development
      6. Dynamic System Development Method
      7. Computer-Aided Software Engineering Tools
      8. Open Source Software and Free/Open Source Software
      9. Interoperability
      10. Summary
    2. Chapter 13 Administrative Information Systems
      1. Introduction
      2. Types of Healthcare Organization Information Systems (1/2)
      3. Types of Healthcare Organization Information Systems (2/2)
      4. Department Collaboration and Exchange of Knowledge and Information
      5. Summary
    3. Chapter 14 Improving the Human–Technology Interface
      1. Introduction
      2. The Human–Technology Interface
      3. The Human–Technology Interface Problem
      4. Improving the Human–Technology Interface (1/2)
      5. Improving the Human–Technology Interface (2/2)
      6. A Framework for Evaluation
      7. Future of the Human–Technology Interface
      8. Summary
    4. Chapter 15 Information Copyright and Fair Use and Network Security
      1. Introduction
      2. Fair Use of Information and Sharing
      3. Securing Network Information
      4. Authentication of Users
      5. Threats to Security
      6. Security Tools
      7. Off-Site Use of Portable Devices
      8. Summary
    5. Chapter 16 Nursing Informatics: Improving Workflow and Meaningful Use
      1. Introduction
      2. Workflow Analysis Purpose
      3. Workflow and Technology
      4. Optimization
      5. Workflow Analysis and Informatics Practice
      6. Building the Design Team
      7. Value Add Versus Non–Value Add
      8. Waste
      9. Variation
      10. Transitioning to Future State
      11. Informatics as a Change Agent
      12. Measuring the Results
      13. Future Directions
      14. Summary
  13. Section IV Nursing Informatics Practice Applications: Care Delivery
    1. Chapter 17 The Electronic Health Record and Clinical Informatics
      1. Introduction
      2. Setting the Stage
      3. Components
      4. Advantages
      5. Ownership
      6. Flexibility and Expandability
      7. The Future
      8. Summary
    2. Chapter 18 An Insider’s View of the Utility of a Clinical Information System
      1. Introduction
      2. Clinical Outcomes and Quality Assurance Supported by the CIS
      3. Evidence-Based Practice and the CIS
      4. The CIS as a Staff Development Tool
      5. Current State
      6. Meaningful Use
      7. Summary
    3. Chapter 19 Telenursing and Remote Access Telehealth
      1. Introduction
      2. History of Telehealth
      3. Nursing Aspects of Telehealth
      4. Driving Forces for Telehealth
      5. Telehealth Care
      6. Telenursing
      7. Telehealth Patient Populations (from Prial and Hoss, 2009)
      8. Tools of Home Telehealth
      9. Home Telehealth Software (from Prial and Hoss, 2009)
      10. Home Telehealth Practice and Protocols (1/2)
      11. Home Telehealth Practice and Protocols (2/2)
      12. Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Issues
      13. A Day in the Life of a Home Telenurse
      14. The Patient’s Role in Telehealth
      15. Telehealth Research
      16. The Foundation of Knowledge Model and Home Telehealth
      17. Summary
      18. Parting Thoughts for the Future and a View Toward What the Future Holds
    4. Chapter 20 Supporting Consumer Information and Education Needs
      1. Introduction
      2. Consumer Demand for Information
      3. Health Literacy and Health Initiatives
      4. Healthcare Organization Approaches to Education
      5. Promoting Health Literacy in School-Aged Children
      6. Supporting Use of the Internet for Health Education
      7. Future Directions
      8. Summary
    5. Chapter 21 Using Informatics to Promote Community/Population Health
      1. Introduction
      2. Core Public Health Functions
      3. Community Health Risk Assessment (Tools for Acquiring Knowledge)
      4. Processing Knowledge and Information to Support Epidemiology and Monitoring Disease Outbreaks
      5. Applying Knowledge to Health Disaster Planning and Preparation
      6. Informatics Tools to Support Communication and Dissemination
      7. Using Feedback to Improve Responses and Promote Readiness
      8. Summary
    6. Chapter 22 Informatics Tools to Promote Patient Safety
      1. Introduction
      2. What Is a Culture of Safety?
      3. Strategies for Developing a Safety Culture
      4. Informatics Technologies for Patient Safety
      5. Technologies to Support the Medication Administration Cycle (1/2)
      6. Technologies to Support the Medication Administration Cycle (2/2)
      7. Additional Technologies for Patient Safety
      8. Role of the Nurse Informaticist
      9. Summary
  14. Section V Nursing Informatics: Education and Research Applications
    1. Chapter 23 Nursing Informatics and Nursing Education
      1. Introduction: Nursing Education and the Foundation of Knowledge Model
      2. Case Study (1/5)
      3. Case Study (2/5)
      4. Case Study (3/5)
      5. Case Study (4/5)
      6. Case Study (5/5)
      7. How to Use a PDA
      8. Applications
      9. Knowledge Assessment Methods
      10. Knowledge Dissemination and Sharing
      11. Future
      12. Summary
    2. Chapter 24 Simulation in Nursing Informatics Education
      1. Introduction
      2. Nursing Informatics Competencies in Nursing Education
      3. A Case for Simulation
      4. Incorporating EHRs into the Learning Environment
      5. Challenges and Opportunities
      6. What Does the Future Hold?
    3. Chapter 25 Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds for Educators
      1. Introduction
      2. Case Scenario
      3. Case Scenario Discussion
      4. Educational Games
      5. Educational Simulations
      6. Virtual Worlds
      7. Choosing Between Educational Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds
      8. The Future of Games, Virtual Worlds, and Simulations
    4. Chapter 26 Nursing Research: Data Collection, Processing, and Analysis
      1. Introduction: Nursing Research and the Foundation of Knowledge Model
      2. Case Study
      3. Knowledge Generation Through Nursing Research
      4. Acquiring Previous Knowledge Through Internet and Library Holdings
      5. Informatics Tools for Collecting Data and Storage of Information
      6. Tools for Processing Data and Data Analysis
      7. Summary
    5. Chapter 27 Translational Research: Generating Evidence for Practice
      1. Introduction
      2. Clarification of Terms
      3. History of EBP
      4. Evidence
      5. Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice
      6. Barriers and Facilitators
      7. The Role of Informatics
      8. Developing EBP Guidelines
      9. Meta-Analysis and Generation of Knowledge
      10. Summary
      11. The Future
  15. Section VI Imagining the Future of Nursing Informatics
    1. Chapter 28 Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics, and Computational Biology
      1. Introduction
      2. Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology Defined
      3. Why Are Bioinformatics and Biomedical Informatics So Important?
      4. What Does the Future Hold?
      5. Summary
    2. Chapter 29 Emerging Technologies and the Generation of Knowledge
      1. Introduction
      2. Looking Back From the Future
      3. Historical Overview
      4. Some Technologies of Today
      5. Some Views of What Will Affect the Future
      6. Some of the Issues from NI2006
      7. Some Emerging Technologies and Other Issues That Will Impact Nursing and Health Care
      8. Beyond Web 2.0
      9. A Technology Wish List
      10. What the Future Holds: Summary (1/2)
      11. What the Future Holds: Summary (2/2)
    3. Chapter 30 Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge
      1. Introduction
      2. Foundation of Knowledge Revisited
      3. Knowledge Use in Practice
      4. Summary
  16. Abbreviations (1/2)
  17. Abbreviations (2/2)
  18. Glossary (1/11)
  19. Glossary (2/11)
  20. Glossary (3/11)
  21. Glossary (4/11)
  22. Glossary (5/11)
  23. Glossary (6/11)
  24. Glossary (7/11)
  25. Glossary (8/11)
  26. Glossary (9/11)
  27. Glossary (10/11)
  28. Glossary (11/11)
  29. Index (1/8)
  30. Index (2/8)
  31. Index (3/8)
  32. Index (4/8)
  33. Index (5/8)
  34. Index (6/8)
  35. Index (7/8)
  36. Index (8/8)

Product information

  • Title: Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge, 2nd Edition
  • Author(s): Dee McGonigle, Kathleen Mastrian
  • Release date: August 2011
  • Publisher(s): Jones & Bartlett Learning
  • ISBN: 9780763792374