Call for NI Chapters

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CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Proposals Submission Deadline: September 15, 2007

Full Chapters Due: January 15, 2008

Handbook of Research in Nursing and Clinical Informatics: Socio-Technical

Approaches

A book edited by: Roland Staudinger, Herwig Ostermann, Bettina Staudinger

Institute of Medical Law, Human Resources and Health Politics

University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall/Tyrol,

Austria

Introduction

The field of Nursing Informatics is currently one of the fastest growing areas

of medical informatics. Several reasons for this growth can be identified:

(1) Through increasing life expectancy and the growing (political) emphasis on

the development of social systems, the area of nursing has been able to gain an

overall higher status and therefore higher degree of professionalism. This has

resulted in fast growing markets in this field, too.

(2) A professionalization offensive in applied nursing runs parallel with the

development outlined above, the offensive ultimately being thematically

controlled as well as driven by advances in nursing sciences. The well-described

Theory-Practice-Gap is currently being attempted to be bridged, on the one hand

using knowledge transfer and standardization on the other.

(3) From this there is an increased necessity for the application of Nursing

Informatics whereby the accomplishment of nursing processes has to be supported

on the one hand. On the other, both planning data and quality indicators can be

derived which may form the basis for the further organizing of the nursing

system in a political and structural respect.

Coverage

Through the compilation of the Handbook of Research in Nursing and Clinical

Informatics: Socio-Technical Approaches, a general overview will be given as to

the current state of nursing informatics. Particular attention will be given to

social, socio-technical and political conditions and the focus of further

research and development projects will be detailed. Highlighted in the work will

be the core areas of nursing informatics, technical feasibility and

functionality. The Handbook will also focus on international perspectives and

the challenges that deviations in nursing systems provide and it will serve as a

concrete foundation for further research projects and will be a unique

comparative work. This new publication may be used as a definitive guide by the

scientific community as well as practitioners and operating authorities within

nursing infrastructures.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Information and good clinical practice

Quality of data and documentation

Social impacts of telemedicine

Clinical decision systems

Technical requirements of NI

NI for home care

International comparison of NMDS

Theory Practice Gap and knowledge transfer

NI as a tool supporting nursing assessment

Evidence Based Nursing and NI

Technical process guided nursing

International benchmarks of nursing quality

The quality of nursing processes

Data needs for national nursing system planning

Evaluation systems and NI

NDMS as a management information and decision support tool

Mobile devices the and nursing process

Nursing education and IT curricula integration

The role of nursing science in NI

Further topics and other important information may be taken from our website:

http://www.nursing-informatics.eu/

Invited submissions

Individuals interested in submitting chapters (5,000-10,000 words) for the

Handbook should submit a 2-3 page morificecript proposal via e-mail clearly

explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter by September 15,

2007. We also encourage other topics not listed on the website, particularly if

it is related to the research area in which you have expertise. Upon acceptance

of your proposal, you will have until January 15, 2008 to prepare your chapter

of 5,000 to 10,000 words and 7-10 related terms and their appropriate

definitions. Guidelines for preparing your paper and terms and definitions can

also be found on our website (see above).

Please forward your e-mail of interest along with the completed Proposal Form to

[email protected] no later than September 15, 2007. You will be notified about

the status of your proposed chapter by October 20, 2007.

This book is tentatively scheduled for publishing by Information Science

Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference) (an imprint of IGI Global),

http://www.info-sci-ref.com.