Mastrian Co-Edits Text on Nursing Informatics
Kathleen Mastrian, associate professor of nursing and nursing coordinator at Penn State Shenango, co-edited a new textbook titled Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge (2009) published by Jones and Bartlett and released August 2008. The text provides a comprehensive overview of the field of nursing informatics including the history of informatics; roles of nursing informatics specialists; and the application of nursing informatics to clinical, administrative, education and research nursing functions. The comprehensive introductory chapters explain the core sciences of nursing informatics, nursing science, information science, cognitive science and computer science.
A unique feature of the text is that it is based on a conceptual framework of knowledge -- The Foundation of Knowledge Model 2007 -- and explains how each aspect of nursing informatics relates to knowledge acquisition, knowledge processing, knowledge generation, knowledge dissemination and feedback, all of which build the science of nursing. Several of the chapters feature contributions from key nursing informatics experts from around the world. The authors also provided the information for comprehensive companion Web sites for instructors who adopt the text and for students enrolled in a course using the text. The book is available for purchase at the Penn State Shenango bookstore and online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Borders.
Mastrian also has had an article published recently in Nursing Practice, the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), 12 (1).
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