Nursing Informatics [electronic resource] : Truths, Talent, and Transforming the Future.

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Editor Biography -- Section 1 Truths -- 1 The State of Nursing Informatics -- Opportunities to Boldly Influence Change -- 1.1 The Imperative to Grow and Change -- 1.2 The Nursing Informatics Landscape: What's Happening Now? -- 1.3 The Case for Why Nursing Informatics Truths and Talents Are Essential Today -- 1.3.1 Nurse Informaticists Get It -- And Why Everyone Else Should Too -- 1.3.2 Nurse Informaticists Are the Invisible Voice of Patients, Caregivers, and Clinicians

1.3.3 The Fast and Furious Healthcare Evolution -- 1.3.4 The COVID-19 Pandemic Changed Nursing -- 1.3.5 We Need More Nurse Informaticists -- 1.3.6 We Need More Educators to Teach Nursing Informatics -- 1.4 Healthcare and Technology Are Transforming, We Need New Informatics Roles -- 1.4.1 Emerging Needs for Nursing Informatics Skills, Knowledge, and Talent -- 1.5 Nurses as Technology Solution Developers and Implementors Are Future-Critical -- 1.6 There Is No Shortage of Nursing Informatics Talent in the Healthcare Technology Industry

1.6.1 Nursing Informatics and Innovation Will Get Us to Where We Need to Be -- 1.7 A Time for Learning and Transformation -- Resources -- Nurses to Know -- References -- 2 The Facts About Informatics Nurses' Place in Healthcare IT -- 2.1 The Value All Nurses Bring to Healthcare -- 2.2 Who People Think Nurses Are, What They Do and Don't Do -- 2.2.1 The Perceived Value of Nurses -- 2.3 Healthcare Information Technology Industry and Our Colleagues -- 2.4 Factors Hindering Nurses' Growth and Impact in the Healthcare Technology Industry

2.5 A Lack of Knowledge About Nurses' Formal Informatics Training and Certifications -- 2.6 Unawareness of Global Nurse-Led, -Developed, and -Centric Technology Initiatives -- 2.7 Nurse Informaticists' Contribution Must Be Known -- Resources -- Nurses to Know -- References -- 3 The Specialty of Nursing Informatics -- 3.1 The Power of Nursing Informatics -- 3.2 A Lynchpin Role in Healthcare's Future -- 3.3 Evolution of NI -- Past, Present, and Future -- 3.3.1 Definition and NI Paradigm -- 3.4 Driven by Standards -- ANA Scope and Standards of NI Practice -- 3.4.1 NI Certification

3.4.2 Training, Education, and Competencies -- 3.4.3 NI Organizations and Networks -- 3.5 Roles and Opportunities in NI -- 3.6 Insights From the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Workforce Surveys 2004-2022 -- 3.7 Value and Impact of NI -- 3.8 Emerging Technologies and Trends -- 3.9 Reimagining Informatics and the Care Continuum -- Resources -- Nurses to Know -- References -- Section 2 Talent -- 4 What Nurse Informaticists Have and Need More Of -- 4.1 The Essentialness of Nursing Foundations to Healthcare IT

4.2 What Nurse Informaticists Naturally Encompass -- Cornerstones of Nursing: Care, Compassion, and Empathy

This book will explicitly detail why, how, and where nurses can utilize their much-needed abilities to evolve their nursing careers and move health IT into the future.