Nursing Informatics Going Strong Within Medical Field

HERSHEY, PA – February 6, 2009 – The field of nursing informatics is one of the fastest growing areas of medical informatics. As the industry grows, so does the need for obtaining the most recent, up-to-date research in this significant field of study.

IGI Global’s newest release, Nursing and Clinical Informatics: Socio-Technical Approaches (edited by Bettina Staudinger, Victoria Höß, and Herwig Ostermann, University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Austria), gives a general overview of the current state of nursing informatics paying particular attention to its social, socio-technical, and political aspects to further research and development projects. A unique international comparative work, this book covers the core areas of nursing informatics with a technical and functional respect and portrays them in their proper context.

"Nursing and Clinical Informatics: Socio-Technical Approaches is a valuable resource for both the established nurse informatician and the new recruit that we need to attract to the discipline, with lessons for both in the need for appropriate application of socio-technical approaches to using technology to support the health of people world wide," says Dr. Peter J. Murray, Director and Founding Fellow, Centre for Health Informatics Research and Development (CHIRAD), UK.

Selected Chapters:

• Shaping Funding Policy for Nursing Services
• Strategies for Creating Virtual Learning Communities
• The Impact of Technology in Organizational Communication
• The Roles of a Nurse in Telemedical Consultations
• Using Information Technology in Nursing Education

ISBN: 978-1-60566-234-3; US $225.00 hardcover
Pre-pub price: US $210.00 (Pre-pub price is good through April 1, 2009.)
Perpetual Access: US $340.00
Print + Perpetual: US $450.00

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