"Expert nurse technology pioneers, emerging leaders, and award-winning informatics nurses provide practicing and aspiring nurse informaticists with an acute understanding of current and evolving healthcare trends and roles and how healthcare organizations and industry leaders benefit from nurses' informatics talent - essential skills, knowledge, wisdom, and contributions - to add immense value in the current and future healthcare technology landscape. This book moves beyond the current informatics literature. It is a platform to inspire nursing informaticists to confidently create, advocate for, and manage their presence in the healthcare technology industry. It furthers the understanding of nursing's value, knowledge, and abilities, the nursing informatics specialty, and how nurses, as end users of technology and the patient's voice in clinical practice, are essential workers, technical developers, and implementors, leading the cultivation of innovative healthcare technology solutions." (publisher).

1.The state of nursing informatics - opportunities to boldly influence change / Whende M. Carroll -- 2. The facts about informatics nurses' place in healthcare IT / Whende M. Carroll -- 3. The specialty of nursing informatics / Joyce Sensmeier -- 4. What nurse informatics have and need more of / Victoria L. Tiase -- 5. Substantiating the value of nursing informatics / Chad Carroll ; Whende M. Carroll ; Brian T. Gammon -- 6. Advancing your growth in healthcare information technology / Brian T. Gammon ; Kathleen McGrow -- 7. Applying innovation and new technologies / Whende M. Carroll ; Hiyam Nadei ; Kimberly Whalen -- 8. The future : where nursing informatics goes from here / Whende M. Carroll -- 9. Epilogue : the best advice you'll ever get / Kathleen McGrow ; Sean Michaels ; Hiyam Nadel ; Meghan Reading Turchioe ; Joyce Sensmeier ; Victoria Famia.