This Third Edition of the leading "how-to" guide and Internet directory, designed specifically for nurses, has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect current and future trends found on the information superhighway. The text serves as a valuable resource for nurses who want to get connected quickly and efficiently to sites of the greatest interest and use to them. A new patient education website section has been added to provide nurses with a valuable tool for finding pertinent patient education information and a subject index has been added to complement the topic index. This addition allows for easier cross-referencing of information. The text also includes a free computer disk that helps the user link to the most important sites quickly. A Brandon-Hill Recommended Title.

This concise, pocket-sized guide to the online healthcare environment provides background information about the Internet, its services and various types of Internet resources available for nursing and healthcare professionals. Updated with the most current resources, the volume is designed to provide readers with the knowledge and confidence needed to use the Internet for education, research, career and other purposes. The volume covers general computer information, health care information systems including strategic planning, system implementation and maintenance, network integration, the electronic or computer-based patient record, disaster planning and recovery and specialty applications such as telehealth. For nurses and health care professionals.

Become Internet savvy...Covers the full spectrum of current Internet information for nursingThe most concise guide to the health care on-line environmentMore than 500 highly relevant websites in the text and on disk This pocket guide version of "Handbook of Informatics" provides the essentials for nurses using (or wanting to use) the Internet. Nursing students and professionals will find this book to be a quick and convenient guide for practical information. It includes Internet literacy basics, application information, and extensive resource lists. A disk of web links is available to qualified adopters and purchasers.

The best selling nurses' guide to understanding and using computers in the workplace--now revised and completely up-to-date. New edition discusses the increasing use of specialized software within nursing curriculums. Examines use of the Internet as a powerful research tool; the way computers are changing the practice of nursing and the NCLEX; telemedicine; and more.

A handbook especially for nurses and other health professionals. It assists in navigating through online nursing references, shows what's there and how to access it.

The Nerdy Nurses Guide to Technology provides the tools nurses need to improve their practices, further their careers, and solidify themselves as assets to their employers. Written with humor and easily digestible sections of information, this reference guide supplies nurses with the practical application tools they need to embrace technology and be successful.

New and expanded to reflect changes on the Internet, especially the explosive growth of the World Wide Web, this best-selling book is primer to the Internet for those who have little or no computer experience and a time-saving guide to resources for the more experienced surfer. In plain language it describes the Internet, how it works, and how to use various Internet tools. In addition, it provides an extensive listing of health-related Internet resources accompanied by reviews and descriptions - not just URLs of dozens of health related topics. The reader will find this directory a treasure trove of information resources available for health care professionals on the Internet.

This jargon-free handbook introduces primary care nurses to the use of the Internet as a source of information relevant to their work. The authors (both Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine) begin by explaining how to use Web browsers and email and demonstrating how to search the Internet on a particular topic. They then i