| Series Preface | 7 |
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| Preface | 8 |
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| Contents | 10 |
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| Contributors | 12 |
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| Part I Foundations of Nursing Informatics | 14 |
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| Nurses and Informatics | 15 |
| Anatomy and Physiology of Computers | 24 |
| History of Healthcare Computing | 39 |
| Telecommunications and Informatics | 53 |
| Part II Nursing Use of Information Systems | 67 |
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| Enterprise Health Information Systems | 68 |
| Nursing Aspects of Health Information Systems | 95 |
| Part III Applications of Nursing Informatics | 114 |
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| Clinical Practice Applications: Facility Based | 115 |
| Clinical Practice Applications: Community Based | 128 |
| Administration Applications | 139 |
| Education Applications | 152 |
| Research Applications | 165 |
| Part IV Infrastructure Elements of the Informatics Environment | 178 |
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| Nursing Data Standards | 179 |
| Defining Information Management Requirements | 197 |
| Selection of Software and Hardware | 207 |
| Data Protection | 226 |
| Ergonomics | 242 |
| Disaster Recovery Planning | 251 |
| Implementation Concerns | 262 |
| A Process Redesign Approach to Successful IT Implementation | 274 |
| Part V Professional Nursing Informatics | 285 |
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| Nursing Informatics Education: Past, Present, and Future | 286 |
| The Future for Nurses in Health Informatics | 298 |
| Appendices | 311 |
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| Generic Request for Proposal | 312 |
| Nursing Informatics Special Interest Groups | 315 |
| Sources of Additional Healthcare Informatics Information | 318 |
| Professional Societies | 321 |
| Academic Informatics ProgramsWorldwide | 323 |
| Transforming Clinical Documentation: Preparing Nursing for Change | 332 |
| Research Databases of Interest to Nurses | 338 |
| Glossary | 345 |
| Index | 362 |
