Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge.

Assignment: Application:

Using the Data/Information/Knowledge/Wisdom Continuum

Have
you ever gone online to search for a journal article on a specific
topic? It is amazing to see the large number of journals that are
available in the health care field. When you view the library in its
entirety, you are viewing untapped data. Until you actually research for
your particular topic, there is little structure. Once you have
narrowed it down, you have information and once you apply the
information, you have knowledge. Eventually, after thoughtful research
and diligent practice, you reach the level of wisdom—knowledge applied
in meaningful ways.

Are
there areas in your practice that you believe should be more fully
explored? The central aims of nursing informatics are to manage and
communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. This continuum
represents the overarching structure of nursing informatics. In this
Assignment, you develop a research question relevant to your practice
area and relate how you would work through the progression from data to
information, knowledge, and wisdom.

To prepare:

  • Review the information in Figure 6–2 in Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge.
  • Develop a clinical question related to your area of practice that you would like to explore.
  • Consider what you currently know about this topic. What additional information would you need to answer the question?
  • Using the continuum of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom, determine how you would go about researching your question.
    • Explore
      the available databases in the Walden Library. Identify which of these
      databases you would use to find the information or data you need.
    • Once you have identified useful databases, how would you go about finding the most relevant articles and information?
    • Consider how you would extract the relevant information from the articles.
    • How
      would you take the information and organize it in a way that was
      useful? How could you take the step from simply having useful knowledge
      to gaining wisdom?

By Day 7 of Week 4

Write a 3- to 4-page paper that addresses the following:

  • Summarize
    the question you developed, and then relate how you would work through
    the four steps of the data, information, knowledge, wisdom continuum. Be
    specific.

    • Identify the databases and search words you would use.
    • Relate how you would take the information gleaned and turn it into useable knowledge.
  • Can
    informatics be used to gain wisdom? Describe how you would progress
    from simply having useful knowledge to the wisdom to make decisions
    about the information you have found during your database search.

Your paper must also include a title page, an introduction, a summary, and a reference page.

 

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