Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing Informatics. Concepts and Applications

Description

Because of the constant advances and dynamics within the nascent field of nursing informatics, many nurses struggle in practice as they continue to try and apply habitual communication practices in the new environment without any critical reflection on, and adaptation of, those practices.

Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing Informatics: Concepts and Applications serves as a valuable asset for nurses, administrators and practitioners who want to improve their understanding of nursing informatics. Critiquing fundamental concepts such as evidence based practice, and examining possible applications of such concepts in the contemporary context of nursing informatics, this text offers chapter and case studies focusing on technology’s contributions to nursing theory and practice, nursing systems management, and decision-support in nursing.

Topics Covered

• Practical and Practice Knowing
• Communication and nursing relationships
• Praxis: the essential nursing construct
• The Nature of Nursing Work
• Translation of evidence into practice
• History of nursing informatics
• Nursing research and generation of evidence
• Ethics in nursing and nursing informatics
• Humanization of Health Care
• Telenursing
• Rural and Remote Mental Health

Preface

This is the first edition of this innovative text that considers the field of nursing informatics within the broader field of nursing knowing and hence information generation and evidenced based practice. Some of the work is an update of where both nursing philosophy and nursing informatics is currently at. This will be of interest to a broad range of readers from undergraduate to postgraduate students and clinicians. Most chapters are not a quick and simple read as they present challenges to the reader to critically think about not only the possibilities afforded by the informatics technologies but also how the use of technologies fits, or not, with nursing practice. Nursing practice is of course underpinned by nursing thinking. It is tempting for the reader to shy away from the challenge presented in the book in the pretence of the demand for simplicity. If ideas are not quickly grounded in recognised like ideas it is easy to blame the author’s writing style. Philosophy is often on the fringe as it falls prey to the reluctance ‘to’ reader tenacity. Many of the ideas presented challenge the reader to really become mindful of what they think and know of nursing, the language used and the origins of the words, and how this thinking and speaking is channelled into practice. The tools of informatics are tools of communication and practice and come into this musing at the level of communication and practice. It would be fine to write of theory, as the kind of theory in this book is of course the most practical kind of theory that drives to the route of what nurses do, but this book goes further with examples of application. In line with evidenced based practice this book explores not only informatics in practice but the evaluation of the practice. This is book is not aiming to present the definitive description of all informatics projects in nursing but a selection from across the globe to demonstrate the possible. We hope you enjoy this book that brings together this challenging, but extremely worthwhile thinking.

Table of Contents

1. Nursing Knowledge
Michael Carey (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Cheryl Waters (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Andrew Cashin (Southern Cross University, Australia)

2. Word Power and Linguistic Constructs in Nursing
Andrew Cashin (Southern Cross University, Australia)

3. Communication and Nursing Relationships
Kyung Shin (Ewha Womans University, South Korea)
Dukyoo Jung (Ewha Womans University, South Korea)
Su Shin (Soon Chun Hyang University, South Korea)

4. Praxis
Cathrine Fowler (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Denise McGarry (Northern Sydney Central Coast Health, Australia)

5. The Nature of Nursing Work
Iain Graham (Southern Cross University, Australia)

6. Translation of Evidence into Practice
Steven Campbell (University of New England, Australia)

7. Nursing Informatics History and its Contributions to Nursing Knowledge
Heather Strachan (eHealth Directorate, Scottish Government, UK)
Peter Murray (International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), UK)
William Erdley (St. John Fisher College, USA)

8. Are Nurses Prepared for Engagement to Evidence-Based Practice with New Technologies?
Kaija Saranto (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)
Virpi Jylhä (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)
Ulla-Mari Kinnunen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)

9. Implications for Nursing Research and Generation of Evidence
Suzanne Bakken (Columbia University, USA)
Robert Lucero (Columbia University, USA)
Sunmoo Yoon (Columbia University, USA)
Nicholas Hardiker (University of Salford, UK)

10. Ethical Considerations of Nursing Informatics
Roy Simpson (Cerner Corporation, USA)

11. Nursing, Information Technology and the Humanization of Health Care
Mike Hazelton (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Peter Morrall (University of Leeds, UK)

12. Telenursing
Sisira Edirippulige (The University of Queensland, Australia)

13. Case Study
Mark Smith (Te Pou – The National Centre for Mental Health Research, Information and Workforce Development, New Zealand)

14. Case Study
Judy Murphy (Aurora Health Care, USA)
Ellen Harper (Cerner Corporation, USA)
Elizabeth Devine (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
Laura Burke (Aurora Health Care, USA)
Mary Hook (Aurora Health Care, USA)

15. Case Study
E. Saurman (University of Sydney, Australia)
D. Perkins (University of Sydney, Australia)
D. Lyle (University of Sydney, Australia)
M. Patfield (Greater Western Area Health Service, Australia)
R. Roberts (Greater Western Area Health Service, Australia)

16. Case Study
Sam Chenery-Morris (University Campus Suffolk, UK)
Catherine Theodosius (University Campus Suffolk, UK)

17. Case Study
Gail Heaberg (AIS for Health, Inc, USA & Georgia Southern University, USA)

18. A Glimpse of the Future
Robyn Cook (Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar)
Jaime Bland (Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar)

Author's/Editor's Bio

Andrew Cashin is a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and Professor of Nursing at Southern Cross University. He holds Adjunct Professor positions at Charles Darwin University and the University of Technology Sydney.

Robyn Cook is a Registered Nurse who has 20 years experience working in health informatics in the public health system in Australia prior to joining Sidra at the beginning of 2009. She has been active in the health informatics community including holding positions of Past Chair, Nursing Informatics Australia, the Australian representative to IMIA NI and past board member of Health Informatics Society of Australia. Robyn is also an Honorary Associate, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney Australia.