Applied Clinical Informatics For Nurses

Applied Clinical Informatics for Nurses focuses on teaching beginning nursing students the practical, need-to-know information for effective use of informatics in the clinical setting.
This textbook is designed to assist educators in creating significant and practical learning experiences for nursing students in clinical informatics. As the field of clinical informatics continues to expand, it is necessary for all students to have a minimum level of competence around the principles and application of informatics.

The text employs a contextually based teaching approach to promote clinical decision making, ethical conduct, and problem solving, making it a practical handbook for both faculty and students. Clear chapter objectives and chapter summaries form the organization of the content. Content throughout the text reflects the a variety of important topics that have been identified as strategic priorities by agencies such as the National Institute for Nursing Research and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Key Pedagogical Features Include:
Case Studies
Key Points
Glossary of key term
Digital ancillaries to support the text

Real-world topics covered include:
Fall prevention
Bar coding
Pharmacy Management

Susan Alexander is a Clinical Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She has a 20 year history in nursing, with experience in a variety of both inpatient and outpatient settings, having earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree in 2009. In addition to her faculty responsibilities, she is certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as an Adult Health Nurse practitioner and in Advanced Diabetes Management. She is a member of a research team that is studying the use of mobile applications to facilitate networking, transfer of information, and ease of patient care among healthcare providers in the field of organ donation and transplantation. Dr. Alexander serves as a reviewer for the Health Resources and Services Administration, Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, McMaster Online Rating of Evidence, and Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) Health Sciences. She has authored articles on topics including implementation of software applications for health professionals and the use of online teaching strategies and mobile applications for healthcare providers in transplant. In addition, she is a contributed to an upcoming textbook entitled Distance Education in Nursing (3rd Edition). Dr. Alexander was the recipient of a 2013 American Association of Nurse Practitioners State Award for Excellence. Karen H. Frith is Professor of Nursing, University of Alabama in Huntsville. She has been a nurse educator for 20 years and has an active program of research in health services research focusing on nurse staffing and patient outcomes.' She co-founded a startup company that has developed decision support software for nurse leaders to improve operational decision making. She is a member of American Organization of Nurse Executives and served for two years on the national Patient Safety Committee for AONE.' She is a member of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, and the Southern Nursing Research Society. She serves as reviewer (grants and articles) for Sigma Theta Tau, Health Resources and Services Administration, Journal of Nursing Administration, Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, Computers, Informatics, Nursing, Journal of Health & Medical Informatics, and Nurse Educator among others. She has authored over 25 articles in peer-reviewed journals, authored the book, Distance Education in Nursing (3rd edition), contributed chapters to three other books, and presents nationally. Her previous clinical positions experience is in cardiovascular surgical intensive care, coronary intensive care, and orthopedics. She is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as Nurse Executive, Advanced (NEA-BC)' Haley Hoy, PhD, ACNP is an acute care nurse practitioner and Interim Associate Dean, at the University of Alabama, Huntsville. She has been a nurse practitioner for more than fifteen years and a leader in technology and transplant nursing. Her current research interests include the role of technology and web- and mobile-based applications for the transplant community, in addition to nurse- and wider-community attitudes to organ donation.' She has research grants from the North American Transplant Coordinators Organization (NATCO) and from the University of Alabama, Huntsville (Faculty Distinguished Research grant recipient). She is an active member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, the North American Transplant Coordinators Organization, and the Medical Automation Organization. She was the recipient of the 2011 State award for excellence in Nurse practitioner practice and the Advanced Transplant Provider Award. She is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and continues to practice as a nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt Medical Center.'