IUPUI Informatics professor co-edits book revamping standards for nursing informatics
February 8, 2008
Josette Jones, assistant professor, IU School of Informatics, recently completed work on an important new book outlining professional standards in the emerging field of nursing informatics. The book, 2008 Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice, will serve as a guide and reference to all nursing informatics practitioners, employers and other organizations, education programs, and regulatory agencies, to name a few.
“With the rapid advancement in the roles and science of nursing informatics, your contribution to this new [book] has added state-of-the-science content along with other very important material about the specialty,” wrote Rebecca M. Patton, president, American Nurses Association.
Nursing informatics is a unique interdisciplinary specialty that integrates nursing science, computer and information science, and cognitive science to manage, communicate, and expand the data, information, knowledge, and wisdom of nursing practice.
“The book is a foundational volume that articulates the essentials of nursing informatics, its accountabilities and activities - the who, what, when, where and how of its practice - for both specialists and generalists," said Prof. Jones.
