Nursing Informatics for the Advanced Practice Nurse, Third Edition: Patient Safety, Quality, Outcomes, and Interprofessionalism

Awarded first place in the 2022 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Informatics

This award-winning resource uniquely integrates national goals with nursing practice to achieve safe, efficient quality of care through technology management. The heavily revised third edition emphasizes the importance of federal policy in digitally transforming the U.S. healthcare delivery system, addressing its evolution and current policy initiatives to engage consumers and promote interoperability of the IT infrastructure nationwide. It focuses on ways to optimize the massive U.S. investment in HIT infrastructure and examines usability, innovative methods of workflow redesign, and challenges with electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs). Additionally, the text stresses documentation challenges that relate to usability issues with EHRs and sub-par adoption and implementation. The third edition also explores data science, secondary data analysis, and advanced analytic methods in greater depth, along with new information on robotics, artificial intelligence, and ethical considerations.

Contributors include a broad array of notable health professionals, which reinforces the book's focus on interprofessionalism. Woven throughout are the themes of point-of-care applications, data management, and analytics, with an emphasis on the interprofessional team. Additionally, the text fosters an understanding of compensation regulations and factors.

New to the Third Edition:

• Examines current policy initiatives to engage consumers and promote nationwide interoperability of the IT infrastructure
• Emphasizes usability, workflow redesign, and challenges with electronic clinical quality measures
• Covers emerging challenge proposed by CMS to incorporate social determinants of health
• Focuses on data science, secondary data analysis, citizen science, and advanced analytic methods
• Revised chapter on robotics with up-to-date content relating to the impact on nursing practice
• New information on artificial intelligence and ethical considerations
• New case studies and exercises to reinforce learning and specifics for managing public health during and after a pandemic
• COVID-19 pandemic-related lessons learned from data availability, data quality, and data use when trying to predict its impact on the health of communities
• Analytics that focus on health inequity and how to address it
• Expanded and more advanced coverage of interprofessional practice and education (IPE)
• Enhanced instructor package

Key Features:

• Presents national standards and healthcare initiatives as a guiding structure throughout
• Advanced analytics is reflected in several chapters such as cybersecurity, genomics, robotics, and specifically exemplify how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) support related professional practice
• Addresses the new re-envisioned AACN essentials
• Includes chapter objectives, case studies, end-of-chapter exercises, and questions to reinforce understanding
• Aligned with QSEN graduate-level competencies and the expanded TIGER (Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform) competencies.

is a clinical nursing informaticist at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. As a professor at Texas Tech, she teaches DNP courses, including statistics, informatics, epidemiology, and population health at the organizational and public policy level. She is also the director of the master's and postmaster's nursing informatics programs. Dr. McBride's clinical expertise also includes perioperative and cardiovascular nursing, with a research focus on methods development for implementing, evaluating, and utilizing large health care datasets and health information technology (HIT) to improve patient safety and quality within the health care delivery system. She has developed and deployed software and services with executive oversight in the for-profit and not-for-profit arenas. Most recently, she supported operational activity and administrative oversight of the West Texas Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center (WTxHITREC) under the F. Marie Hall Institute for Rural and Community Health in a senior leadership role. Her focused activities include advising practices and hospitals on workflow redesign, clinical decision support, strategies to assist providers in meeting meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs), quality measures, and analytics using certified EHR technology. Her current research involves an EHR-enhanced simulation program to develop best-practice competencies in the use of EHRs for interprofessional teams and evaluation of the use of social media initiatives in improving population health.

is an associate professor at Texas Woman's University College of Nursing, where she teaches nursing research and informatics. She also supports the statistics component of capstone projects. Previously, she worked as senior manager, Center for Research and Innovation, VHA Inc., in Irving, Texas. She also served as director of nursing research and informatics in the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council's Education and Research Foundation. In that role, Dr. Tietze was responsible for deployment of the Council's 3-year technology implementation project on behalf of the Small Community, Rural Hospitals Research Grant, a National Institutes of Health grant funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She was a key member on a team that was awarded an $8.4 million grant for a Regional Extension Center in North Texas. Dr. Tietze directed workforce center nursing research and data initiative informatics projects, and is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in informatics nursing. She is fellow of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (FHIMSS) certified by the Health Information Management Systems Society. Since 2010, Dr. Tietze has been an associate professor at the Houston J. and Florence A. Doswell College of Nursing at Texas Woman's University. In 2014, she became the program director of the graduate certificate program in interprofessional informatics at Texas Woman's University.