Unit 1: What Is Nursing Informatics?

Unit 1: What Is Nursing Informatics?

Discuss ways that nursing informatics could be applied to all areas of professional nursing practice, including clinical practice, administration, education, and research. Provide examples of each. What do you see as the biggest significance of nursing informatics, and why?

Please use the following reference as the main resource during the discussion:

McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2018). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (4th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett.

Assigned Readings:

Chapter 1: Nursing Science and the Foundation of Knowledge
Chapter 2: Introduction to Information, Information Science, and Information Systems
Chapter 5: Ethical Applications of Informatics
Chapter 11 The Human-Technology Interface
Chapter 16: Patient Engagement and Connected Health
Chapter 21: Nursing Research: Data Collection, Processing, and Analysis
Chapter 22: Data Mining as a Research Tool