Designed to provide a foundation for nursing informatics knowledge and skills required in today’s data-driven healthcare environment, this text examines the impact and implementation of technology in nursing practice. Patient healthcare needs have only become more complex in a rapidly aging and diversifying population. Nurse Informaticists, as experts in improving healthcare delivery through data and technology, play a key role in ensuring quality and safety to patients. This text relies on nurses’ practical experience to foster higher-level critical thinking and decision-making for professional development in informatics and life-long learning.

Informatics defined, evolution, guiding principles, expectations -- Roles, professional organizations, and theories -- First things first -- hardware -- First things first -software -- Project management -- Application and integration of research into practice -- Applications to support educational initiatives -- Data standardization applications -- capturing data -- Big data applications to inform practice -- Maintaining quality of data and information, data and data quality -- Assessment and evaluating outcomes -- Ethics, privacy, security, other technology challenges -- Life-long learning : advancing own education.