Nursing Informatics

This groundbreaking playbook fills a gap in the nursing literature. It promotes a deeper understanding of current and evolving roles and how health IT benefits from nurses' talents and furthers nurses' comprehension of the health information technology (health IT) landscape, present, and future state. The book serves as a guide to introduce the essential need for their unique expertise in health IT. The book furthers the understanding of nursing value and knowledge, the specialty of nursing informatics, and new nursing roles transformed by modern technology. It covers comprehensively, why there is a need for nurses in the health IT industry. This book covers how nurses can use their invaluable skills, wisdom, and rare nursing talents to enhance the work of health IT teams in healthcare organizations, and private sector businesses now and into the future. This book is a must-read read for all nurses, who, as a profession, collectively go mostly unnoticed in today's healthcare information technology industry. As essential workers, and the largest population of clinicians, nurses are the most significant users of technology, and most trusted clinicians and profession, even over doctors. The playbook explains how nurses can thrive in public and private sector health IT roles and have substantial involvement in digital transformation initiatives. The playbook describes how, although much needed, health IT departments and companies do not have nurses, many employ doctors and non-clinical staff as clinical advisors, as they do not see the real value of nurses in health IT. Nurses work in health IT, and more want to enter this industry currently, but may be apprehensive and uninformed on how to make the transition. Health IT companies, from startups to Big IT, do have nurses on their IT teams, in the C-Suite, and boards and can ultimately benefit from nurses' unique skills and knowledge. The playbook explains these modern phenomena, and how the healthcare industry needs nurses to enhance its imperative to cultivate innovative health IT new models, processes, products, and solutions. 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.