"Informatics and Nursing: Opportunities and Challenges provides students with the core knowledge to understand technology while using informatics to discover and manipulate information. With this text, students are able to access, manage, and present clinical data. The Sixth Edition is designed to capture cutting-edge advancement in nursing informatics core competencies and to teach students how informatics should be integrated into practice while continuing to emphasize important areas such as computing software and consumer informatics. This text enhances students' communication skills"--Provided by publisher.

Textbook for BSN 304 Introduction to Nursing Care and Informatics\BSN304.

Introduction to nursing informatics: managing healthcare information -- Essential computer and software concepts -- Basic computer network concepts -- Social and professional networking -- Authoring scholarly word documents -- Authoring scholarly slide presentations -- Mastering spreadsheets software to assess quality outcomes -- Databases: creating information from data -- Information literacy: a road to evidence-based practice -- Finding knowledge in the digital library haystack -- Mobile computing -- Informatics research -- Consumer informatics benefits -- The empowered consumer -- Interoperability at the national and the international levels -- Nursing documentation in the age of the electronic health record -- Nursing informatics: theoretical basis, education program, and profession -- Electronic health records and incentives for use -- Design considerations for healthcare information systems -- Quality measures and specialized electronic healthcare information systems -- Electronic healthcare system issues -- Telehealth evolving trends -- Educational informatics: e-learning -- Informatics in management and quality improvement -- Legal and ethical issues.