Handbook of Informatics for Nurses & Healthcare Professionals

by Toni Hebda, Kathleen Hunter, Patricia Czar

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.

496 pages, Paperback

First published March 18, 2012

Reviews

[Robin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read for Fall 2012 NURS 736 Technical Solutions for Knowledge Generation in Health Care.

[Daniel Mala · Rating 3 out of 5]

Survived Advanced informatics! Book was done well enough and covered all the topics clearly. It was a dry topic to some degree and the text didn’t do much to change that. Useful information though. Cheers!