Nursing Informatics

This new edition of the classic textbook on health informatics provides readers in healthcare practice and educational settings with an unparalleled depth of information on using informatics methods and tools. However, this new text speaks to nurses and - in a departure from earlier editions of this title - to all health professionals in direct patient care, regardless of their specialty, extending its usefulness as a textbook. This includes physicians,therapists, pharmacists,dieticiansand manyothers. In recognition of the evolving digital environments in all healthcare settings and of interprofessional teams, the book is designed for a wide spectrum of healthcare professions including quality officers, health information managers, administrators and executives, as well as health information technology professionals such asengineers and computer scientists in health care. Thebook isofspecial interesttothose whobridgethetechnical andcaring domain,particularly nurse and medical informaticians and other informaticiansworking in the health sciences. Nursing Informatics: An Interprofessional and Global Perspective contains real-life case studies and other didactic features to illustrate the theories and principles discussed, making it an ideal resource for use withinhealth and nursing informatics curricula at both undergraduate and graduate level, as well as for workforce development. It honors the format established by the previous editions by including a content array and questions to guide the reader. Readers are invited to look out of the box through a dedicated global perspective covering health informatics applications in different regions, countries and continents.