Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge / Edition 4

by Dee McGonigle

Overview

Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge, Fifth Edition is a foundational text for teaching nursing students the core concepts of knowledge management while providing an understanding of the technology tools and applications where a certain level of proficiency is required. A practical guide for understanding how to leverage modern technology, the text teaches students how to acquire, process and disseminate knowledge. Grounded in the Foundation of Knowledge Model, the authors leverage this framework throughout as an organizational structure by which to teach and learn nursing informatics. The Fifth Edition gives nurses the tools and knowledge they need to succeed in the information age. Each chapter has been carefully updated to reflect the most current advances in technology, healthcare and reimbursement services. The authors also highlight the timely and impactful contribution of informatics to quality improvement, interprofessional collaboration, and the pandemic response. Finally, a thought-provoking chapter ties all of the elements of informatics together and asks students to consider the future impact of technology on the patient care experience by examining care bots, cyborgs and artificial intelligence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2901284121246
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	03/29/2017
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	606
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Dr. McGonigle brings more than 40 years of experience in nursing and nursing informatics to this position. She is a Certified Distance Education Instructor and a Certified Nurse Educator. After being introduced to computers enhancing nursing education while working towards her master’s degree, Dr. McGonigle defined informatics in 1991. She co-founded the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), a professional, scholarly, peer-reviewed journal in 1996 for which she was the Editor in Chief for 17 years through 2013. OJNI is currently published by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). In 2014, Dr. McGonigle was the first one honored as a Platinum Award recipient from the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics. She developed the Foundation of Knowledge Model and the ETHICAL Model used to handle ethical challenges brought about by the volatile information age. Dr. McGonigle has received over $870,000.00 in funding, presented internationally and nationally, authored workbooks, book chapters and more than 130 publications. She led the development of an online self-assessment tool for level 3 and level 4 nursing informatics competencies, NICA L3/L4, which was cited in ANIA’s Nursing Informatics Today in 2014 and ANA’s NI Scope and Standards document. Dr. McGonigle was a research team member for the development of an online self-assessment tool, TANIC, for basic level 1 and level 2 nursing informatics competencies based on the TIGER initiatives. Dr. McGonigle has co-authored three text books. The nursing informatics text, Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge is in its 3rd edition and took second place as AJN’s 2014 Information Technology/Social Media Book of the Year. The text written for nurse educators to help them assimilate technology to enhance teaching and learning, Integrating Technology into Nursing Education: Tools for the Knowledge Era, was AJN’s 2010 first place Technology Book of the Year. This text, Informatics for Health Professionals, released in 2016. She is a member of the Expert Panel on Informatics and Technology for the American Academy of Nursing, a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a Fellow in the NLN Academy of Nursing Education. She is also a member of the Serious Gaming and Virtual Environments Special Interest Group for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare.

Dr. Kathleen Mastrian is an Associate Professor of Nursing and Program Coordinator for the Shenango Campus of Penn State. She has a PhD in Sociology with an emphasis on Medical Sociology, A Master’s degree in Nursing from Pitt and a BS in Nursing from Penn State. She has been involved in the education of non-traditional aged students for 36 years in the RN to BS nursing program. She is one of the founding proposers to place the RN to BS program online for the Penn State’s World Campus, has developed five of the courses for that curriculum, and teaches at least one section per semester for the World Campus RN to BS program. She has extensive experience teaching informatics, research and sociology for the Shenango campus and has taught online for the World Campus for over 10 years. She is SR. managing Editor of the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics, now a publication of HIMSS. Dr. Mastrian has presented at numerous national,conferences , co-authored two text books and written more than 30articles. An additional bookwritten for nurse educators to help them integrate technology to enhance teaching and learning, Integrating Technology into Nursing Education: Tools for the Knowledge Era, was AJN’s 2010 Technology Book of the Year, and this text won second place in the AJN's Technology Division in 2015. Drs. Mastrian and McGonigle were eachnamed to the "15 Leading Professors of Nursing Informatics" 2015 list compiled by Medical Technology Schools. Dr. Mastrian won the2012 Shirley Novosel Distinguished Nursing Alumni Award and was recently nominated for an Athena Leadership Award.

Table of Contents

Section I Building Blocks of Nursing Informatics
Chapter 1 Nursing Science and the Foundation 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: HITECH and HIPAA
Section III Nursing Informatics Administrative Applications: Precare and Care Support
Chapter 9 Systems Development Life Cycle: NI and Organizational Decision Making
Chapter 10 Administrative Information Systems
Chapter 11 The Human–Technology Interface
Chapter 12 Electronic Security
Chapter 13 Workflow and Meaningful Use
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 and Quality Outcomes
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, Gaming Mechanics and Virtual Worlds in Nursing Informatics 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 Nursing Informatics and Knowledge Management

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Karen O'Grady, MLIS, MAEd (University of San Diego)
Description: This fifth edition covers the intersection of nursing with healthcare technology: nursing informatics (NI). The book discusses nursing as well as computers, computing, and technology. A well-done history of both topics is intertwined with information and lessons around ethics, legislation, the complex healthcare industry, education, research, and the future, among other topics. The accompanying online features are excellent. There is a choice between student or instructor, interactive worksheets, slides for presentations, and links that open into references.
Purpose: According to the preface, "The purpose of this text is to provide a set of practical and powerful tools to ensure that the reader gains an understanding of NI and moves from information to knowledge to wisdom." My take is that the book provides an extremely solid presentation of the history, basis, components, challenges, details, and possibilities of nursing informatics, which is an extremely worthy objective that is needed in the literature. The online version adds pedagogical value. I am not sure that any textbook can provide wisdom, but the book unquestionably meets its objective of presenting information and creating knowledge.
Audience: The book is written for nursing informatics students, or anyone interested in learning all about nursing informatics. Anyone working in healthcare technology or nursing would benefit from reading this book as it is very thorough. I recognize both authors' names from reviewing other informatics books they have written. They are credible.
Features: The best aspect of this book is its extremely thoughtful arrangement. The book beautifully presents a difficult blending of intersecting topics. The glossary is extensive and the index is quite thorough. Most every chapter has a huge amount of vocabulary at the beginning. The "thought-provoking questions," case studies, research briefs, and other features throughout the textbook make it pleasant to digest and understand. The book is also very well edited and I did not find one error on its pages.
Assessment: This stacks up quite nicely against the several other nursing informatics books I have reviewed. The book is well written and well edited, unlike most nursing informatics books. As stated previously, the book's strength is its presentation of material. Every aspect of nursing and computers and health care and technology is presented. Their intersection with newer technology, such as data, wearable devices, translational research, and telehealth are mixed without redundancy with important topics such as community health and human-computer interaction and hospital workflows. This updated version is very justified because the field continues to explode. A comparable book that I love is Emerging Technologies for Nurses: Implications for Practice, Carroll (Springer Publishing Company, 2020). Both books are excellent, but this nursing informatics book makes a more complete textbook.

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