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About Informatics For Health Professionals
Product Description New edition available December 2019! Informatics for Health Professionals is an excellent resource to provide healthcare students and professionals with the foundational knowledge to integrate informatics principles into practice. The theoretical underpinning of this text is the Foundation of Knowledge model, which explains how informatics relates to knowledge acquisition, knowledge processing, knowledge generation, knowledge dissemination, and feedback. Once readers understand informatics and the way in which it supports practice, education, administration, and research, they can apply these principles to improve patient care at all levels. Key content focuses on current informatics research and practice including but not limited to: • Technology Trends • Information Security Advances • Health Information Exchanges • Care Coordination • Transition Technologies • Ethical and Legislative Aspects • Social Media Use • Mobile Health • Bioinformatics • Knowledge Management • Data Mining, and more Helpful learning tools include: case studies, provoking discussion questions, research briefs, and call outs on cutting-edge innovations, Meaningful Use, and patient safety. INSTRUCTOR RESOURCES: Instructor’s Manual, Slides in PowerPoint format, and a Test Bank. STUDENT RESOURCES: Each new print copy includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access that unlocks an interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, and a dashboard that reports actionable data. Some eBook and electronic versions do not include Navigate 2 Advantage Access. About the Author Dr. Kathleen Mastrian is an Associate Professor of Nursing and Program Coordinator for the Shenango Campus of Penn State. She has a PhD in Sociology with an emphasis on Medical Sociology, A Master’s degree in Nursing from Pitt and a BS in Nursing from Penn State. She has been involved in the education of non-traditional aged students for 36 years in the RN to BS nursing program. She is one of the founding proposers to place the RN to BS program online for the Penn State’s World Campus, has developed five of the courses for that curriculum, and teaches at least one section per semester for the World Campus RN to BS program. She has extensive experience teaching informatics, research and sociology for the Shenango campus and has taught online for the World Campus for over 10 years. She is SR. managing Editor of the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics, now a publication of HIMSS. Dr. Mastrian has presented at numerous national,conferences , co-authored two text books and written more than 30articles. An additional bookwritten for nurse educators to help them integrate technology to enhance teaching and learning, Integrating Technology into Nursing Education: Tools for the Knowledge Era, was AJN’s 2010 Technology Book of the Year, and this text won second place in the AJN's Technology Division in 2015. Drs. Mastrian and McGonigle were eachnamed to the "15 Leading Professors of Nursing Informatics" 2015 list compiled by Medical Technology Schools. Dr. Mastrian won the2012 Shirley Novosel Distinguished Nursing Alumni Award and was recently nominated for an Athena Leadership Award. Dr. McGonigle brings more than 40 years of experience in nursing and nursing informatics to this position. She is a Certified Distance Education Instructor and a Certified Nurse Educator. After being introduced to computers enhancing nursing education while working towards her master’s degree, Dr. McGonigle defined informatics in 1991. She co-founded the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), a professional, scholarly, peer-reviewed journal in 1996 for which she was the Editor in Chief for 17 years through 2013. OJNI is currently published by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). In 2014, Dr. McGonigle was the first one honored as a Platinum Award recipient from the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics. She developed the Foundation of Knowledge Model and
