The second edition of Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice is the most comprehensive, up-to-date resource available in this subject area. The book covers the full scope of nursing informatics and outlines the competency level of nursing practice and professional performance expected from all informatics nurses and nurse specialists. In addition, it details the nursing informatics competencies needed by any RN, spans all nursing careers and roles, and reflects the impact of informatics in any health care practice environment. This is a must-read for nurses, as informatics touche.

Scope and Standards of Nursing Informatics Practice can be used as a primary resource in several ways. It is well-suited as a reference and guide for informatics educational programs, NI practitioners, employers developing position descriptions, research and funding agencies, and others needing to understand nursing informatics. The scope section is a comprehensive essay on the status and future of a specialty that affects all nursing practice, addressing key underlying ideas and concepts, including human computer interaction and ergonomics, ethics and confidentiality, the evolution of NI definitions, and the specifications of both the goals for nursing informatics and the roles open to its practitioners.

This book is the ideal student guide to the history of healthcare informatics, current issues, basic informatics concepts, and health information management applications.

Designed to provide a foundation for nursing informatics knowledge and skills required in today’s data-driven healthcare environment, this text examines the impact and implementation of technology in nursing practice. Patient healthcare needs have only become more complex in a rapidly aging and diversifying population. Nurse Informaticists, as experts in improving healthcare delivery through data and technology, play a key role in ensuring quality and safety to patients. This text relies on nurses’ practical experience to foster higher-level critical thinking and decision-making for professional development in informatics and life-long learning. Application of Informatics and Technology in Nursing Practice addresses the foundations of Nursing Informatics competencies, streamlined for the unique experience of practicing nurses. Organized around the framework of AACN Essentials of Baccalaureate Education, ANA Scope and Standards of Practice for Nursing Informatics, Institute of Medicine (IOM) Competencies, and Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs), this text features numerous case scenarios of real-life applications to engage the reader and reinforce content. Chapters cover informatics competencies, knowledge, and skills in a concise manner that recognizes the value of prior nursing experience and builds upon the reader’s existing knowledge-base. Key Features Provides information needed for all nurses in order to advance professionally in the new discipline and specialty of Nursing Informatics. Each chapter contains relevant critical thinking exercises, vignettes, and case studies Provides information and skills needed by nurses specific to a variety of healthcare settings Each chapter contains end-of-Chapter Learning Assessments: What Do You Know Now? Instructor Ancillary Package is included

Nursing informatics (NI) is the specialty that integrates nursing science with information management and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. Nursing Informatics supports nurses, consumers, patients, the interprofessional healthcare team, and other stakeholders in a wide variety of roles and settings to achieve desired outcomes. This is accomplished through the use of information structures, information processes, and information technology. An Introduction to Nursing Informatics, Evolution and Innovation, 2nd Edition is the ideal gateway to all the professional possibilities this continuously evolving discipline has to offer. Describing the evolution of nursing informatics from its origins to current practice in today’s complex, diverse healthcare environment, this book offers the next generation of nurse informaticists an understanding of the discipline, best practices, and its scope of influence in healthcare. The book also explores Nursing Informatics as it is evolving into the future, including technology creation and implementation and the development of influential policies and best practices. Special features include descriptions of the ‘a day in the life’ from informatics nurses in multiple roles and fields of influence, including academia, research, clinical settings, the executive suite, consulting, and government, as well as an Appendix featuring case profiles. This new edition updates the content to better align with the current state of nursing informatics and expand on additional roles. New to this edition is a chapter providing tips and advice for those trying to find their first nursing informatics job or are changing their careers. Another new chapter covers healthcare analytics and how it fits into the nursing informatics role. An Introduction to Nursing Informatics, Evolution and Innovation, 2nd Edition is the ideal resource for nursing students and as a reference guide and pint of inspiration for nurses currently in the field.

Radiologic and imaging nursing is the specialty practice concerned with the assessment, care planning, and direct care of individuals before, during, and after diagnostic and therapeutic imaging procedures. As well, radiologic and imaging nurses advocate for those individuals and their families, and are often the voice of those unable to speak for themselves. Accordingly, these RNs are concerned with the safety of both such individuals and the staff who provide such services. This publication is a guide to the essentials of this specialty, a framework for its practice. ANA and the Association for Radiologic and Imaging Nursing have collaborated to produce a foundational resource for contemporary radiologic and imaging nursing practice. Written by nurse experts aided by the review and other input from other nurses, Radiologic and Imaging Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice is a comprehensive, up-to-date delineation of the competent level of nursing practice and professional performance common to and expected from radiologic and imaging registered nurses whatever their practice levels or setting. It reflects the current thinking, practice, and research in radiologic and imaging nursing. The publication's scope of practice addresses what is expected of all radiologic and imaging registered nurses, specifying the who, what, where, when, why and how of radiologic and imaging nursing practice. The detailed discussion of that scope of practice provides the context needed to understand and use the standards. The 16 standards are those by which all radiologic and Imaging RNs are held accountable for their practice. Each standard is measurable by a set of specific competencies that serve as evidence of minimal compliance with that standard. This foundational volume reflects the diverse activities of radiologic and imaging nurses and serves them in their clinical practice, education, and research. While primarily for specialty practitioners and the educators, students, and others directly involved in nursing care, research, advocacy; and certification, this book can also inform other healthcare providers, researchers, and scholars as well as employers, insurers, lawyers, regulators, policy makers, and stakeholders. Since the late 1990s, ANA has partnered with other nursing organizations to establish a format process for recognition of specially areas of nursing practice. This includes the criteria for approving the specialty itself and the scope statement, and an acknowledgment by ANA of the standards of practice for that specialty. Because of the significant changes in the evolving nursing and healthcare environments, ANA's approval of specialty nursing scope statements and its acknowledgment of specialty standards of practice remain valid for five years, starting from the publication date of the documents. The standards in this publication are based on language from ANA's Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, Second Edition, a helpful supplement to this specialty text, which in turn is of optimal use with two complementary ANA texts: Nursing's Social Policy Statement: The Essence of the Profession and Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses: Interpretation and Application. These three books are also available as a set, ANA's Foundation of Nursing 2010 Package, to guide nursing practice, thinking, and decision-making. The set is proving useful as a professional reference, classroom textbook, in-service training guide, and credentialing exam resource. For more on these publications, go to www.Nursesbooks.org. Book jacket.

Pamphlet is a succinct statement of the ethical obligations and duties of individuals who enter the nursing profession, the profession's nonnegotiable ethical standard, and an expression of nursing's own understanding of its commitment to society. Provides a framework for nurses to use in ethical analysis and decision-making.