Nursing Informatics: Truths, Talent, and Transforming the Future

Expert nurse technology pioneers, emerging leaders, and award-winning informatics nurses provide practicing and curious 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.

The content deep dives into:

• Why nurses in technology and innovation are indispensable to solving today’s key healthcare issues.
• Debunking nursing profession and practice falsities and how the truths prove nurses’ genuine value in today’s healthcare information technology industry.
• A comprehensive look at the past, current, and future state of the nursing informatics specialty.
• Pitch language for why organizational leaders should begin and better utilize nurses’ exceptional clinical and technology talent essential to transforming healthcare.
• The ways nurses intelligently use technology, knowledge, wisdom, and innovation and can harness strategies to thrive in current roles and succeed in career transitions.
• How emerging nursing and informatics roles catalyzed by modern technology will profoundly change the healthcare landscape.

The chapters include invaluable testimonials, recommendations, resources, and influential nurse names to help readers thoughtfully evolve their nurse technology processes and roles and promote a way forward for nurse innovation, career growth, and revolutionary care delivery shifts that will take the unique informatics specialty to the next level and create a path for an equitable, fully digitized future of healthcare.

Whende M. Carroll, MSN, RN-BC, FHIMSS is the founder of Nurse Evolution, a cause-based nursing community established to educate all nurses how to expertly use technology, data and innovation strategies for optimizing nursing care delivery for the health of people and populations. Whende graduated from Walden University, Minneapolis, in 2012 with a Master of Science in nursing with a nursing informatics focus and holds board certification in informatics nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). She is an award winning author and editor of the textbook ’Emerging Technologies for Nurses-Implications for Practice’(Springer Publishing: NYC) and is currently a Senior Editor at the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), for which she regularly writes about big data-enable emerging technologies.