Table of Contents

• The Scope of Nursing Informatics Practice
• Definition of Nursing Informatics
• Metastructures, Concepts, and Tools
• Metastructures: Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom
• Integration of Nursing Informatics into Practice
• Nursing Informatics Practice
• Tenets of Nursing Informatics
• Nursing, the Nursing Process, and Vocabularies
• Concepts and Tools from Information Science and Computer Science
• User Experience and Related Concepts
• Phenomenon of Nursing
• Functional Areas of Nursing Informatics
• Administration, Leadership, and Management
• Systems Analysis and Design
• Compliance and Integrity Management
• Consultation
• Coordination, Facilitation, and Integration
• Development of Systems, Products, and Resources
• Education and Professional Development
• Genetics and Genomics
• Information Management and Operational Architecture
• Policy Development and Advocacy
• Quality and Performance Improvement
• Research and Evaluation
• Safety, Security, and Environmental Health
• Integrated Functional Area Example: Telehealth and Informatics
• Evolution of Informatics Competencies
• Informatics Competencies Requisite for All Registered Nurses
• Research About Nursing Informatics Competencies
• Professional Organization Discussions on Informatics Competencies
• Healthcare Leadership Alliance
• American Organization of Nurse Executives
• Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
• National League for Nursing
• TIGER Initiative Foundation
• Informatics Competencies: Spanning Careers and Roles
• Informatics Competencies for Informatics Nurses and
• Informatics Nurse Specialists
• Informatics Competencies for Nurse Educators
• Office of the National Coordinator for Health
• Information Technology
• Synthesis of Evolution of NI Competencies
• Preparation for Nursing Informatics Specialty Practice
• Certification of Informatics Nurses
• An Advancing Professional Nursing Specialty
• Ethics in Nursing Informatics
• The Future of Nursing Informatics
• Trends in Practice Roles and Competencies for
• Nurses and Informatics
• Trends in Technology
• Nanotechnology
• Tools for Managing Population Health Concerns
• Devices and Hardware
• Robotics
• Focus on Emerging Technologies
• Knowledge Representation
• Educational Technologies
• Tools for Patient Access to Health Information
• Expanded Use of IT in Nursing
• Implications for Nursing Informatics
• Trends in Regulatory Changes and Quality Standards
• Trends in Care Delivery Models and Innovation
• Consumer Informatics
• External Partnerships
• Implications for Nursing Informatics
• NI Future and Trends: Summary
• Standards of Nursing Informatics Practice
• Standards of Practice for Nursing Informatics
• Standard 1. Assessment
• Standard 2. Diagnosis, Problems, and Issues Identification
• Standard 3. Outcomes Identification
• Standard 4. Planning
• Standard 5. Implementation
• Standard 5a. Coordination of Activities
• Standard 5b. Health Teaching and Health Promotion
• Standard 5c. Consultation
• Standard 6. Evaluation
• Standards of Professional Performance for Nursing Informatics
• Standard 7. Ethics
• Standard 8. Education
• Standard 9. Evidence-Based Practice and Research
• Standard 10. Quality of Practice
• Standard 11. Communication
• Standard 12. Leadership
• Standard 13. Collaboration
• Standard 14. Professional Practice Evaluation
• Standard 15. Resource Utilization
• Standard 16. Environmental Health
• Glossary
• References
• Appendix A. An Emerging Model of Wisdom
• Appendix B. Nursing Informatics: Scope and
• Standards of Practice (2008)