Nursing Informatics for the Advanced Practice Nurse: Patient Safety, Quality, Outcomes, and Interprofessionalism

Empower Advanced Practice Nurses to Drive Digital Transformation

This award-winning text prepares advanced practice nurses to lead healthcare innovation through AI, analytics, and data-driven decision-making. The Fourth Edition expands coverage of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and emerging technologies while reinforcing the core themes of patient safety, quality improvement, and interprofessional collaboration. The new edition also presents information on ambient listening, cybersecurity and virtual simulation. Supported by robust instructor resources and clear AACN Essentials alignment, it remains the go-to text for graduate informatics education.

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What’s New:

• Comprehensive coverage of Artificial Intelligence and its impact on nursing practice
• Expanded coverage of simulation, virtual learning, and accessibility
• Updated EHR, analytics, and population-health content with AI integration
• New coverage of robotics, nanotechnology, and emerging technologies
• Revised policy and regulatory frameworks to reflect national standards
• New content on cybersecurity and risk mitigation in digital health
• Foreword by Dr Jiajie Zhang on the global AI revolution in healthcare

Key Features:

• Connects policy, data science, and nursing leadership for real-world impact
• Promotes critical thinking and interprofessional collaboration
• Provides case studies and tools for immediate practice application
• Authored by national informatics leaders and AAN Fellows
• Instructor Resources include Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint slides, a Test Bank, and more

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Susan McBride, PhD, RN, NI-BC, CPHIMS, FAAN, is a nursing informaticist with over 25 years of experience in clinical informatics whose research focus is on methods development for implementing, evaluating, and utilizing health information technology and data to improve patient safety, quality, and population health. Dr. McBride is a Professor and the Associate Dean of Research for the School of Nursing at the University of Texas at Tyler. She is executive oversight of the University of Texas Tyler Health Science Center Institute for Health Innovation, Data Science and Research overseeing data science labs across campuses, supporting researchers in use of large clinical and population health datasets.Dr. McBride is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a member of the Informatics and Technology Expert Panel serving as Chair of the panel for 2019. She is a professor with prior curriculum development and teaching experience in graduate education for statistics, informatics, and epidemiology. She has developed and deployed software and services in the for-profit and not-for-profit arenas in the United States and has managed data repositories of clinical and administrative data in several positions over the past 20 years.

Mari Tietze, PhD, RN, NI-BC, FHIMSS, FAAN, is the Myrna R. Pickard Endowed Professor at the University of Texas (UTA) College of Nursing and Health Innovation and the Affiliate to the UTA Center for Innovation in Health Informatics (CIHI). There she teaches and is the Director of the MSN in Nursing Health Informatics degree and certificate program. Previously, she worked as senior manager, Center for Research and Innovation, VHA Inc., in Irving, Texas. She also served as director of nursing research and informatics in the Dallas–Fort Worth Hospital Council’s Education and Research Foundation. In that role, she was responsible for deployment of the Council’s 3-year technology implementation project on behalf of the Small Community, Rural Hospitals Research Grant, a National Institutes of Health grant funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She was a key member of a team that was awarded an $8.4 million grant for a Regional Extension Center in North Texas. She directed workforce center nursing research and data initiative informatics projects. She is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in informatics nursing and a fellow of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (FHIMSS).