Rev. ed. of: Essentials of computers for nurses / Virginia K. Saba, Kathleen A. McCormick. 2nd ed. c1966. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Computers and nursing: Overview of computers and nursing -- Historical perspectives of nursing and the computer -- Computer systems: Computer hardware -- Software -- Data processing -- Computer systems -- The Internet: a nursing resource -- Issues in informatics: Nursing informatics and health care policy -- Privacy, confidentiality, and security -- Data standards -- Informatics theory: Nursing informatics theory -- Concept-oriented terminological systems -- Implementing and upgrading clinical information systems -- Practice applications: Practice applications -- Critical care applicaitons -- Community health applications -- Ambulatory care systems -- Administrative applications: Administration applications of information technology for nursing managers -- Translating evidence into practice: guidelines and automated implementation tools -- Challenges for data management in long-term care -- Consumer use of informatics: Consumers in health care -- Health-related decision-making by patients -- Educational applications: The nursing curriculum in the information age -- Distance education: using technology to learn -- Innovations in telehealth -- Research applications: Computer use in nursing research -- Computerized information resources -- International perspectives: Canada -- Europe -- Pacific Rim -- South America -- The future of informatics: Future directions-- Appendix A: Home health care classification (HHCC) system -- Two terminologies: HHCC of nursing diagnoses and HHCC of nursing interventions with 20 care components.
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