Nursing Informatics Textbook Error - Chapter 6

There is an error with the first Applications and Competencies exercise for chapter 6.  It refers learners to the textbook website for chapter 7.  It should refer to http://dlthede.net/informatics/Chap06WordProcessing/chap6.html for the multitasking.rtf file.

Updates to Informatics and Nursing Website

Updates to the Informatics and Nursing Website at http://dlthede.net/informatics/Informatics.html

Chapter 5: If accessing Facebook from a public WiFi such as in a restaurant or hotel, text "opt" to 32665 to receive a one time password to your account (http://dlthede.net/informatics/Chap05ProfNetworking/chap5.html#socnet )

Chapter 18: Rand Objective Analysis Effective Solutions: Electronic Medical Records. This site contains links to current published articles that look realistically at EMRs. Some articles are freely available and others require a subscrition to the publishing journal. If you have access to online journals through your hospital or educational institution you may have free access from those sources.
http://www.rand.org/topics/electronic-medical-records.html
http://dlthede.net/Informatics/Chap18BasicEHR/chap18.html

Georgia College Press Release of Book of the Year

The communications department at Georgia College posted a nice article on the 2012 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award on Friday.  The article is online at http://infox.gcsu.edu/content/georgia-college-nurse-awarded-%E2%80%98book-year%E2%80%99

My sincere thanks to Tim Vacula, our university photographer, for the photo shown below.

Updates to the Website for Informatics and Nursing Textbook

The website we use to support our Informatics and Nursing textbook, http://dlthede.net/Informatics/Informatics.html,  has several updates that are noted below.

Chapter 2 http://dlthede.net/Informatics/Chap02Software/chap2.html
You may want to look at
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/your-data-your-rights-how-fair-are-online-storage-services/4877?pg=2
about rights in cloud computing.  Good news - Dropbox is now safe.

Chapter 9 http://dlthede.net/Informatics/Chap09Databases/chap9.html
US Census and Population. From the US government. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for Data Ferret. We have NOT used this tool, but it could be used to create data from existing census data to download for use in many different packages including Excel and statistical packages.
http://www.publicadministration.net/resources/us-census-and-population/


Chapter 10 -http://dlthede.net/Informatics/Chap10Internet_EBP/chap10.html
Discovered that one of the journals in the list is from a publisher on Beall's list of predatory open access publishers.  I investigated the publication and did not find the problem that was mentioned in the list, but I added the information that it was on that list to the description of the Internet Journal of Advanced Nursing Practice.  


Chapter 18 http://dlthede.net/Informatics/Chap18BasicEHR/chap18.html
Meaningful Use: The Whiteboard Story. Chart that contains both stage 1 and stage 2 criteria in a way that they could be printed on a large poster, or translated to an Excel spreadsheet for use in tracking progress. This is in PDF format.
http://www.advisory.com/Research/IT-Strategy-Council/Resources/Posters/2012/Meaningful-use-the-whiteboard-story
Rural Health IT. What Meaningful Use means to rural. Four Excel spreadsheets as below.

1. Proposed Changes to Stage 1 grid (excel version)
2. Proposed Stage 2 Objectives grid (excel version)
3. Proposed Stage 2 Hospital CQM grid (excel version)
4. Proposed Stage 2 EP CQM grid (excel version)

http://www.worh.org/hit/2012/02/proposed-stage-1-revision-and-stage-2-objective-and-cqm-tables/

EHR Certification
From ANIA implementation specifications and certification criteria for electronic health record technology, 2014 edition. If you choose to open the bookmarked version be sure to uncheck McAfee security check unless this is your virus checker or you want to buy it. We have not used this checker and it may (or may not) be safe, but my "red flag" went up - mixing virus checkers is often the road to problems.
http://www.advisory.com/Research/IT-Strategy-Council/Resources/2012/Read-ONC-proposed-rule-for-the-EHR-technology-certification-criteria

Chapter 24 http://dlthede.net/Informatics/Chap24Research/chap24.html
Kaczmirek, Lars (2004). A thorough discussion and checklist for online surveys and software is available in this pdf document. The typeface is somewhat faint.
http:\\www.websm.org/uploadi/editor/kaczmirek2004-choosing-survey-software.pdf

Informatics and Nursing - AJN Book of the Year Award

Am so excited to share that the 4th edition of the Nursing and Informatics textbook that Linda Thede and I authored received an AJN (American Journal of Nursing) 2012 Book of the Year award in the category of Information Technology and Informatics.  You can read the book review at http://download.lww.com/wolterskluwer_vitalstream_com/PermaLink/AJN/A/AJN_113_1_2012_12_11_AJN_0_SDC2.pdf 

The award is such an amazing honor!

Informatics and Nursing Textbook Website Updates

Linda updated our website for the Informatics and Nursing textbook this week.  Click on the links below to view the updates.

Chapter 10  - The Internet:  A Road to Evidence-Based Practice

Free (open access) Online Scholarly Information

Chapter 5 -  Professional Networking

Chapter 12 - Mobile Computing: Finding Knowledge in the Palm of your Hand

Chapter 17 -  Nursing Informatics Programs: What to Look For

Informatics and Nursing Website Supported by the Authors

Linda and I are so fortunate to have the 4th edition of the Informatics and Nursing textbook supplemented by the resources on Lippincott's ThePoint website at http://thepoint.lww.com/

A screenshot of the textbook available resources is noted below.

As noted in earlier blogs, Linda maintains a website to support every chapter in the textbook.  A screenshot example is noted for Chapter 6 on word processing below.  

ThePoint resources are password protected but the resources from the site that Linda maintains are available to everyone.  Enjoy!

Informatics and Nursing 4th Edition Website

Linda has posted the website to support the 4th edition of the textbook, Informatics and Nursing:  Opportunities and Challenges at http://dlthede.net/Informatics/Informatics.html .  User will find all of the links from the textbook plus additional resources to support each chapter. 

She has noted corrections for changed URLs and notations where the URLs no longer exist.  Users are encouraged to provide feedback about what is helpful and suggestions on how the site/textbook can be improved. We value your thoughts and ideas!

Another Informatics and Nursing 4th Edition Update

When talking with one of our graduate students this afternoon about the 4th edition of the Nursing and Informatics textbook, I checked on the current availability. 

•  Barnes and Noble have the eBook available 

• Amazon has the paperback book available

The Point Website for Informatics and Nursing 4th Edition

The Lippincott ThePoint website with resources for faculty and student to support the 4th edition of Informatics and Nursing is http://thepoint.lww.com/Book/Show/235900 .  It is not fully functional for faculty yet, but the student resources that I reviewed all work.  When the site is ready, the textbook should be available in as a print and as a eBook.

Linda will have our personal textbook site ready within a couple of weeks.  She is finalizing the chapter web pages and creating an index now. As with the 3rd edition, all users will have all of the corrections (several URLs are already broken).  Such is the life of nursing informatics!  It is quickly changing!!

Informatics and Nursing 4th edition

I received a pre-publication copy of the 4th edition of the Informatics and Nursing textbook in the mail today.  I really hope that users continue to find it readable and a great source of learning.

• The chapter on hardware is now included in the appendix. 
• Chapter 12 on mobile computing includes screenshots of the iPhone and iPad, as well as some detailed information on cell phones, iPads, and other mobile devices.  
• The chapters on office software include references to the software for the Mac and free office software such as OpenOffice.org and Google docs. 
• Users will be able to download the files used for the textbook screenshots to interact with the data. 
• The other updates include meaningful use, the HITECH Act, data security, disaster recovery, and more about HIPAA. 
• Student and faculty support will be available online at http://thepoint/lww.com/Sewell4e.   
• The website does indicate that the book will be available as an eBook.  I hope that the hyperlinks work! 

I have included a screenshot of the textbook cover below.