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From the nursing perspective, healthcare is always a multifaceted, multidisciplinary activity. Many nurses manage the overall care processes and serve as a focal point of information exchange between patients and providers and among the different providers. This book aims to make a contribution toward equipping students and the nursing and healthcare workforce with the necessary knowledge of how data and digitalization can support nurses, patients, and everyone else involved in the healthcare system in making the best decisions and achieving optimal health outcomes. Due to the wide range of nursing informatics within the context of health informatics, this book includes the interprofessional perspective, inviting other health professions and students/adult learners to learn from the different topics of the individual chapters or the book as a whole. This book strives to share a global point of view and learning across regions, countries, and continents to broaden the foundation of health informatics knowledge. The goal is to plant the seeds of understanding how health information and technology are made successful abroad, how things can be changed at home, and how international alliances can be forged in science and industry alike.
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Why is healthcare always a multifaceted, multidisciplinary activity from the nursing point of view?
Very often nurses serve as focal points in sharing and exchanging information among the providers and also between the providers and the patients and their relatives. Nursing—though rooted in nursing data, information, and knowledge—considers not only nursing data but all data to render the full picture of the patient.
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What are the milestones of informatics, health, and nursing informatics?
Connectivity, mobility, democratization of information and knowledge, knowledge development, transparency, visualization, cognitive support, and assistance/ambient assisted living.
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What is meant by the breadth of the field?
Nursing informatics covers all topics of the health sciences from a nursing perspective. It embraces the entire field from cells to populations. It integrates science and practice at the micro, meso, and macro levels meaning that individuals, organizations, and societies are both the target groups and the actors within nursing informatics. As educators, nurses must be capable of understanding informatics methods and tools, not only how to use them but also how to teach the mechanisms and their implications for the patient, the organization, the profession, and society. Nurses and healthcare providers must speak their professional language. At the same time, they also need to communicate and negotiate with people in the field of data and technology, such as bioengineers, computer scientists, statisticians, bioinformaticians, data science experts, epidemiologists, economists, and healthcare managers.
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Hübner, U.H., Mustata Wilson, G., Shaw Morawski, T., Ball, M.J. (2022). Nursing Informatics Through the Lens of Interprofessional and Global Health Informatics. In: Hübner, U.H., Mustata Wilson, G., Morawski, T.S., Ball, M.J. (eds) Nursing Informatics . Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91237-6_1
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