Handbook of Informatics for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals

Handbook of Informatics for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals
Author: Toni L. Hebda
Publisher:
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2018-07-24
Genre: Medical informatics
ISBN: 9780134711010

For courses in nursing informatics. A practical guide to applying healthcare IT and nursing informatics Handbook of Informatics for Nurses & Healthcare Professionals is a complete, up-¿to-¿date overview of key issues related to adopting and applying healthcare IT and nursing informatics. It provides nurses and other healthcare professionals with a much-needed practical guide to using computer applications and healthcare information systems. The authors cover the concepts, skills, and tasks needed to achieve national IT goals to help transform healthcare delivery. The 6th edition reflects rapid changes in healthcare IT and informatics, and builds upon the expertise of contributors involved in day-to-day informatics practice, education, and research.

Handbook of Informatics for Nurses & Health Care Professionals

Handbook of Informatics for Nurses & Health Care Professionals
Author: Toni Hebda
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Allied health personnel
ISBN: 9780135043943

This useful handbook introduces nurses and other health care professionals to the most current application of computer-related technology in the health care environment. Included are the various forms of electronic communication and ways to use it more effectively. New coverage of web-based technology, search tools, and evaluation criteria for online material are presented along with regulatory and accreditation requirements, such as HIPAA. Completely updated, the fourth edition offers a clearly written overview of informatics, as well as practical applications of computer-based education for day-to-day use.

Handbook of Informatics for Nurses and Health Care Professionals

Handbook of Informatics for Nurses and Health Care Professionals
Author: Toni Hebda
Publisher:
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2001
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

Toni Lee Hebda, Duquesne University School of Nursing, Allegheny General Hospital Patricia Czar, St. Francis Medical Center Cynthia M. Mascara, Shared Medical Systems Corp. (SMS) The perfect resource for practical information on computer literacy basics and applications. "Handbook of Informatics for Nurses and Health Care Professionals" is an accessible guide to the computer technology used by healthcare professionals. Written for nursing and healthcare professionals, this reference provides the most up-to-date information available. FEATURES: Contains expanded coverage of Intranets, search tools, outsourcing, strategies, planning, security, and patient information, providing the most up-to-date coverage of trends, technology, roles, regulations, and legislation. Updated discussion of client and web-based technology describes client and health information systems as well as education offerings and research. Section on HIPAA regulations and legislation familiarizes readers with factors that impact data quality. Chapters contain examples, and case studies that illustrate informatics in practice. Discussion of electronic communication teaches how use the Internet more effectively. Strategic planning for information management encourages appreciation for the intricacies of automated healthcare systems. Introduces characteristics, benefits, and issues surrounding the development and use of Computerized Patient Records (CPR). Disaster planning and recovery provides specific measures for back-up restoration of PCs. Telehealth familiarizes readers withlegal and technical issues.

Applied Clinical Informatics for Nurses

Applied Clinical Informatics for Nurses
Author: Alexander
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2017-12-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 128415548X

Applied Clinical Informatics for Nurses, Second Edition employs a contextually based teaching approach to promote clinical decision making, ethical conduct, and problem solving.

The Nurse’s Healthcare Ethics Committee Handbook

The Nurse’s Healthcare Ethics Committee Handbook
Author: Angeline Dewey
Publisher: Sigma
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2018-08-13
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1945157550

Healthcare ethics help guide and influence the way physicians, nurses, and other members of the healthcare team care for patients and make decisions. Ethics address the moral dilemmas that arise out of conflicts with duties or obligations as well as the consequences of decision-making. As healthcare has continued to grow and evolve, so has the way healthcare ethics are handled. Nurses are uniquely positioned to serve as leaders in healthcare ethics because they are intricately involved in all aspects of patient care, including care coordination, recommendations for plans of care, provision of life-sustaining interventions, and patient education. The Nurse’s Healthcare Ethics Committee Handbook focuses on a nurse-led ethics consultative service. Authors Angeline Dewey and Andrea Holecek provide tools that nursing students, professionals, administrators, and other members of the healthcare team need to develop infrastructure and processes that support nurses in an ethics committee leadership role. Filled with real-life scenarios, this book outlines a step-by-step process for nurses to evaluate ethical cases and the risks involved

Nursing Informatics

Nursing Informatics
Author: Ulla Gerdin
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 660
Release: 1997
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9789051993622

This book reflects the evolution of a vibrant discipline in its chosen. The Impact of Nursing Knowledge on health Care Informatics. Nursing Informatics has changed the practice, defining new roles for nursing in education, research, patient care and administration. reaching out into industry, government and consultancies. The range of issues addressed in this book is extraordinary, including nursing language, cognitive skills, education and training, nursing research, systems design, decision support, patient record, patient management, standards and more. It also clarifies values, strategies and practices central to the profession of nursing. This book is a part of the global network, building bridges between teachers, students, clinicians, administrators and researchers around the world and creating a lasting bond.

Health Informatics: Practical Guide for Healthcare and Information Technology Professionals (Sixth Edition)

Health Informatics: Practical Guide for Healthcare and Information Technology Professionals (Sixth Edition)
Author: Robert E. Hoyt
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2014
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1304791106

Health Informatics (HI) focuses on the application of Information Technology (IT) to the field of medicine to improve individual and population healthcare delivery, education and research. This extensively updated fifth edition reflects the current knowledge in Health Informatics and provides learning objectives, key points, case studies and references.

Project Management for Healthcare Informatics

Project Management for Healthcare Informatics
Author: Susan Houston
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2007-11-25
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0387736832

Through its use of real clinical examples, this book provides an explanation of the project management process tailored for nurses. It first describes, in detail, the project management process along with its relationship to the phases of the project life cycle. Coverage includes the tools available to successfully complete each phase of the project management process and advance the project life cycle. With the aid of case studies and project examples, the book then examines how to apply these principles in the day-to-day work of the nurse, whether manager, staff nurse, educator, researcher, or informatician.

Patient Safety and Quality

Patient Safety and Quality
Author: Ronda Hughes
Publisher: Department of Health and Human Services
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2008
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/

Book Only

Book Only
Author: Dee McGonigle
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Total Pages: 665
Release: 2012
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0763792365

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