CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Handbook of Research in Nursing and Clinical Informatics

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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 manuscript 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 office.impg@umit.at 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), www.info-sci-ref.com.