Ramona Nelson - Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach

Second Edition

Ramona Nelson, PhD, RN-BC, ANEF, FAAN

Professor Emerita, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania

President, Ramona Nelson Consulting, Allison Park, Pennsylvania

Nancy Staggers, PhD, RN, FAAN

President, Summit Health Informatics; Adjunct Professor, College of Nursing and Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

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St. Louis, Missouri 63043

HEALTH INFORMATICS: AN INTERPROFESSIONAL APPROACH, SECOND EDITION

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To my husband, Glenn M. Nelson, who always manages to be there

To my daughters, who managed to pick wonderful husbands,

Dorianne & Michael Hollis and Leslie-Ann & Kristopher Bidelson

and

To my grandchildren, who are todays joy and tomorrow's hope,

Mackenzie, Hope, Ella, and Molly

Ramona Nelson

To my father, Forest Thorpe, who supported education for women

during an age when it was deemed superfluous

and

To my husband, Bob Staggers, who has always been a champion of strong women

Nancy Staggers

Ramona Nelson holds a baccalaureate degree in nursing from Duquesne University and a master's degree in both nursing and information science and a PhD in education from the University of Pittsburgh. In addition, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Utah. Prior to her current position as president of her own consulting company, Ramona was a Professor of Nursing and Chair of the Department of Nursing at Slippery Rock University. Today Ramona continues her association with Slippery Rock University in the role of Professor Emerita. Her primary areas of interest include informatics education for health professionals, social media and empowered patients, and the application of theoretical concepts in health informatics practice.

Her past publications include textbooks, monographs, book chapters, journal articles, World Wide Web publications, abstracts, and newsletters. She has been recognized as a Nursing Informatics Pioneer by the American Medical Informatics Association. In addition, she was named a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 2004 and in the National League for Nursing Academy of Nursing Education Fellows.

Nancy Staggers is a nursing informatics pioneer who is actively involved in informatics user experience research. Her education was at the University of Wyoming and the University of Maryland School of Nursing, culminating in a PhD with a concentration on informatics and research. Her background includes both health informatics practice and academia. She was a health informatics executive in the Department of Defense and elsewhere, leading enterprise acquisitions and installations of inpatient electronic health records. Her academic career includes professorships at both the University of Utah and the University of Maryland. Nancys academic work began with developing nursing informatics competencies and later leading teams to revise the American Nurses Association document on the scope and practice of nursing informatics in the United States in 2002 and 2008. Her research program focuses health IT support and redesign for complex activities such as electronic medication administration records and handoffs/care transitions. Recently she led a team on the user experience community at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society to identify nursing user experience issues and solutions for nurses interactions with health IT. She was elected as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 1999 and received the American Medical Informatics Association Virginia K. Saba nursing informatics award in 2013 for her contributions to informatics. She owns her own health informatics company, which focuses on research consultations and international collaborations. She is also adjunct professor of informatics at the Department of Biomedical Informatics and College of Nursing, University of Utah, and she teaches user experience research methods for the Health Informatics program at the University of Alabama Birmingham. Nancy publishes widely on health informatics topics, concentrating on user experience research.

Antonia Arnaert, RN, MPH, MPA, PhD Associate Professor, Ingram School of Nursing, McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Nancy C. Brazelton, RN, MS Application Service Director, Information Technology Services, University of Utah Health Care, Salt Lake City, Utah