Nursing Informatics

In nursing practice, nursing informatics (NI) is a specialization that combines nursing science with a variety of information and analytical sciences to identify, describe, manage, and transmit data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. Despite the fact that nursing informatics is already in its third decade as a nursing specialty, there are still various definitions for the discipline. The use of technology and/or a computer system to collect, store, process, display, retrieve, and communicate timely data and information in and across health care facilities that administer nursing services and resources, manage the delivery of patient and nursing care, link research resources and findings to nursing practice, and apply educational resources to nursing education is known as nursing informatics. One explanation for this new approach's widespread acceptability could be that managing information (i.e., data, information, and knowledge processing) is at the heart of nursing practice, whether or not technology is used.

• Concepts and Tools of Nursing Informatics
• Functional Areas
• Ethics in Nursing Informatics
• The Future of Nursing Informatics
• Trends in Regulatory Changes and Quality Standards