Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing Informatics : Concepts and Applications

Because of the constant advances and dynamics within the nascent field of nursing informatics, many nurses struggle in practice as they continue to try and apply habitual communication practices in the new environment without any critical reflection on, and adaptation of, those practices. Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing Informatics: Concepts and Applications serves as a valuable asset for nurses, administrators and practitioners who want to improve their understanding of nursing informatics. Critiquing fundamental concepts such as evidence based practice, and examining possible applications of such concepts in the contemporary context of nursing informatics, this text offers chapter and case studies focusing on technology’s contributions to nursing theory and practice, nursing systems management, and decision-support in nursing.

Andrew Cashin is a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and Professor of Nursing at Southern Cross University. He holds Adjunct Professor positions at Charles Darwin University and the University of Technology Sydney.

Robyn Cook is a Registered Nurse who has 20 years experience working in health informatics in the public health system in Australia prior to joining Sidra at the beginning of 2009. She has been active in the health informatics community including holding positions of Past Chair, Nursing Informatics Australia, the Australian representative to IMIA NI and past board member of Health Informatics Society of Australia. Robyn is also an Honorary Associate, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney Australia.