While graduate nursing informatics courses have rapidly proliferated to meet new accreditation standards, they often focus only on the technical aspects of informatics and lose sight of the most important goal-improving care and safety of the patient. This is the first text designed specifically for graduate-level nursing informatics courses that focuses on using technology with an interprofessional team to foster quality patient care. It is based on the requirements of the DNP Core Competency Essential IV, and facilitates an expansive and innovative approach to devising practical methods of using technology to improve patient care.
With an emphasis on the benefits of an interprofessional team, the book describes the most effective approaches to health care delivery using health information technology. It encompasses such themes as patient safety and quality, point-of-care applications, population health, data management and integrity, analytics, and privacy and security. The authors also espouse a hybrid approach to teaching with a merged competency and concept-based curriculum. New and emerging technologies explored include genomics, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and data mining. Case studies and critical thinking exercises support the concept-based curriculum and facilitate out-of-the-box thinking. Supplemental materials for instructors include PowerPoint Slides and a test bank.
Key Features:
Addresses DNP Essential IV Core Competency for Informatics
Focuses specifically on using nursing informatics expertise for improving patient health and safety
Advocates an interprofessional team approach
Stimulates critical thinking skills that can by applied to all aspects of IT health care delivery
Discusses newest approaches to interprofessional education for IT health care delivery
Author Biography
Susan McBride, PhD, RN-BC, CPHIMS, is Clinical Nursing Informaticist, Texas Tech University, USA Health Sciences Center, where she teaches DNP courses on statistics, informatics, epidemiology, and population health at the organizational and public policy level. Dr. McBride's clinical expertise also includes perioperative and cardiovascular nursing, with a research focus on methods development for implementing, evaluating, and utilizing large healthcare datasets and health information technology to improve patient safety and quality within the healthcare delivery system. She has developed and deployed software and services with executive oversight in the for-profit and not-for-profit arenas. Most recently she supported operational activity and administrative oversight of the West Texas Health Information Technology (HIT) Regional Extension Center under the F. Marie Hall Institute for Rural and Community in a Senior Leadership role. Her focused activities include advising practices and hospitals on workflow redesign, clinical decision support, strategies to assist providers in meeting meaningful use of EHRs, quality measures, and analytics using certified EHR technology. Mari Tietze, PhD, RN-BC, FHIMSS, is Associate Professor, Texas Woman's University College of Nursing, USA, where she teaches nursing research and informatics. She also supports the statistics component of Capstone projects. Previously, she worked as Senior Manager, Center for Research and Innovation, VHA Inc., in Irving, Texas and served as Director of Nursing Research and Informatics in the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council-Education and Research Foundation. In that role, Dr. Tietze was responsible for deployment of the Council's three-year technology implementation project on behalf of the Small Community, Rural Hospitals Research Grant, a NIH grant funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She was key member on a team that was awarded an $8.4 million grant for a Regional Extension Center in North Texas, USA. Dr. Tietze directed Workforce Center nursing research and Data Initiative informatics projects, and is Board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in Informatics Nursing. She is FHIMSS Certified by the Health Information Management Systems Society.
