Index of contents

• Introduction
• The Council on Nursing Informatics
• Issues and needs
  • Response to change
  • New roles for nurses
• IS in an organization
  • Information systems and nursing
  • Life cycle of NIS
  • Standardization rationales
  • Standardization issues
    • National / international standardization efforts
    • Nursing standardization efforts
      • Nursing standard examples
• Database (DB) design
  • Development
  • Advantages and disadvantages
  • Clinical information system architecture
  • Analyzing and improving systems
• NIS for decision support