Description

Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge is a comprehensive textbook that introduces the field of nursing informatics, which integrates nursing science, information science, computer science, and cognitive science to support healthcare practice, education, research, and administration. It is designed for nursing students, educators, informatics specialists, and healthcare professionals who need to understand how technology and information management influence modern nursing care.

The book explains how nurses use information and technology to collect, process, manage, and apply knowledge to improve patient outcomes and healthcare decision-making. It presents the authors’ Foundation of Knowledge Model as a framework for understanding how data becomes information, information becomes knowledge, and knowledge supports clinical judgment and evidence-based practice.