With this useful, understandable guide, you can equip your students to access, manage, and present clinical data with confidence. Informatics and Nursing: Opportunities and Challenges, 7th Edition, helps students develop the communication and information literacy skills necessary to incorporate informatics into practice by emphasizing the knowledge that every nurse should possess and documenting state-of-the-art developments in a field that is changing quickly.

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have established current competencies that are fully matched with clear, simple coverage. The most recent viewpoints on diversity, fairness, and social justice are included, along with important topics such office cloud computing software, interoperability, consumer informatics, clinical information systems, social media use guidelines, and software and hardware advancements.