Nursing Informatics for the Advanced Practice Nurse, Second Edition is a must-have for all healthcare specialists in the digital age. It delivers a practical array of tools and information to show how advanced practice nurses can maximize patient safety, quality of care, and cost savings through the use of technology. Since the first edition of this text, health information technology has only expanded and become more critical to understand. With increased capability and complexity, the current technology landscape presents new challenges and opportunities for interprofessional teams. Nurses, who are already trained to use the analytic process to assess, analyze, and intervene, are in a unique position to use nursing informatics in lead teams to address healthcare delivery challenges via data.
The only informatics text written specifically for advanced practice nurses, this text excels as both a fantastic introduction to healthcare informatics, or to fill knowledge gaps in the already initiated.
Nursing Informatics for the Advanced Practice Nurse, Second Edition, tackles health informatics broadly by delivering an expansive and innovative approach to thinking about technology. Each chapter is highly practical, filled with case studies and exercises that demonstrate how the content presented relates to the contemporary healthcare environment. Where applicable, informatics concepts are aligned with the six domains within the Quality and Safety Education in Nursing (QSEN) approach and are tied to national goals and initiatives. Featuring chapters written by physicians, epidemiologists, engineers, dieticians, and health services researchers, the format of this text reflects its core principle that it takes a team to fully realize the benefit of technology for patients and healthcare consumers, and still manage to cover specialized subjects like QSEN competencies and ANCC informatics.
The updated second edition includes:
- Several chapters of new material to support teams’ optimization of electronic health records
- Updated national informatics standards and initiatives
- Increased focus and new information on usability, interoperability and workflow redesign throughout based on latest evidence
- Explores challenges and solutions of electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs), a major initiative in healthcare informatics; Medicare and Medicaid Services use eCQMs to judge quality of care, and how dynamics change rapidly in today’s environment
Key features of this intensive informatics textbook:
- Presents national standards and healthcare initiatives
- Provides in-depth case studies for better understanding of informatics in a real world environment
- Addresses the DNP Essentials, including II: Organization and system leadership for quality improvement and systems thinking, IV: Core Competency for Informatics, and Interprofessional Collaboration for Improving Patient and Population health outcomes
- Includes end-of-chapter exercises and questions for students
- Instructor’s Guide and PowerPoint slides for instructors
- Aligned with QSEN graduate-level competencies
Susan McBride, PhD, RN, NI-BC, CPHIMS, FAAN, is a nursing informaticist with over 25 years of experience in clinical informatics whose research focus is on methods development for implementing, evaluating, and utilizing health information technology and data to improve patient safety, quality, and population health. Dr. McBride is a Professor and the Associate Dean of Research for the School of Nursing at the University of Texas at Tyler. She is executive oversight of the University of Texas Tyler Health Science Center Institute for Health Innovation, Data Science and Research overseeing data science labs across campuses, supporting researchers in use of large clinical and population health datasets.Dr. McBride is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a member of the Informatics and Technology Expert Panel serving as Chair of the panel for 2019. She is a professor with prior curriculum development and teaching experience in graduate education for statistics, informatics, and epidemiology. She has developed and deployed software and services in the for-profit and not-for-profit arenas in the United States and has managed data repositories of clinical and administrative data in several positions over the past 20 years.
Mari Tietze, PhD, RN, NI-BC, FHIMSS, FAAN, is the Myrna R. Pickard Endowed Professor at the University of Texas (UTA) College of Nursing and Health Innovation and the Affiliate to the UTA Center for Innovation in Health Informatics (CIHI). There she teaches and is the Director of the MSN in Nursing Health Informatics degree and certificate program. Previously, she worked as senior manager, Center for Research and Innovation, VHA Inc., in Irving, Texas. She also served as director of nursing research and informatics in the Dallas–Fort Worth Hospital Council’s Education and Research Foundation. In that role, she was responsible for deployment of the Council’s 3-year technology implementation project on behalf of the Small Community, Rural Hospitals Research Grant, a National Institutes of Health grant funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She was a key member of a team that was awarded an $8.4 million grant for a Regional Extension Center in North Texas. She directed workforce center nursing research and data initiative informatics projects. She is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in informatics nursing and a fellow of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (FHIMSS).
