Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge, Fourth Edition teaches nursing students the history of healthcare informatics, current issues, basic informatics concepts, and health information management applications. This comprehensive text contains basic through complex concepts to address the needs of the novice through innovator. The text takes the reader from the building blocks of informatics through complicated topics such as data mining, bioinformatics, and system development. The content is enhanced through its grounding in the Foundation of Knowledge Model founded by the authors.
 
Table Of Contents 
 
Section  I  Building Blocks of Nursing Informatics
  Chapter  1  Nursing Science and Concepts of Knowledge
  Chapter  2  Introduction to Information, Information Science, and Information Systems
  Chapter  3  Computer Science and the Foundation of Knowledge Model
  Chapter  4  Introduction to Cognitive Science and Cognitive Informatics
  Chapter  5  Ethical Applications of Informatics
Section  II  Perspectives on Nursing Informatics
  Chapter  6  History and Evolution of Nursing Informatics
  Chapter  7  Nursing Informatics as a Specialty
  Chapter  8  Legislative Aspects of Nursing Informatics: HIPAA, HITECH and Beyond
Section  III  Nursing Informatics Administrative Applications: Precare and Care Support
  Chapter  9  Systems Development Life Cycle: Nursing Informatics and Organizational Decision Making
  Chapter  10  Administrative Information Systems
  Chapter  11  The Human-Technology Interface
  Chapter  12  Electronic Security
  Chapter  13  Achieving Excellence by Managing Workflow and Initiating Quality Projects
Section  IV  Nursing Informatics Practice Applications: Care Delivery
  Chapter  14  The Electronic Health Record and Clinical Informatics
  Chapter  15  Informatics Tools to Promote Patient Safety, Quality Outcomes, and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
  Chapter  16  Patient Engagement and Connected Health
  Chapter  17  Using Informatics to Promote Community/Population Health
  Chapter  18  Telenursing and Remote Access Telehealth
Section  V  Education Applications of Nursing Informatics
  Chapter  19  Nursing Informatics and Nursing Education
  Chapter  20  Simulation, Game Mechanics, Virtual Worlds, and the Realities in Nursing Education
Section  VI  Research Applications of Nursing Informatics
  Chapter  21  Nursing Research: Data Collection, Processing, and Analysis
  Chapter  22  Data Mining as a Research Tool
  Chapter  23  Translational Research: Generating Evidence for Practice
  Chapter  24  Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics, and Computational Biology
Section  VII  Imagining the Future of Nursing Informatics
  Chapter  25  The Art of Caring in Technology-Laden Environments
  Chapter  26  Our Expanding Realities