From Data, Information and Knowledge to Wisdom

From Data, Information and Knowledge to perception The information- discipline- friendship- erudition (DIKW) continuum is a invention of the transformation of data into wisdom through cognitive processes. DIKW was initially apply to illustrate principles of information management for the designing of information systems (Davenport & Pursak, 1989)(Saltworks, 2009).DIKW models utilized by breast feeding such as the model by Englebart & Nelson (2002), incorporate principles of increase complexity due to increasing interactions What is important and unique to nursing is the DIKW purposes and models similarly help disclose the critical thinking processes that nurses use to transform cognition into the delivery of patient role c be, into education and learning and also into nursing look for (ANA-American Nurses Association, 2008).The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the progression through the four stairs of the data, information, cognition, wisdom continuum that occurs re await information to answer a clinical incredulity pertinent to nurse practitioner practice. alike(p) N nursing talking to in Nurse practician Practice The use of electronic information and decision support systems in nursing practice has brought about the initiation of several standardized nursing languages to document and communicate patient care. (McGonigle & Mastria, 2012 ).The individuation of the Nurse Practitioner is grounded in nursing practice but has also expanded to include the functions of a physician (OConnor, Hameister, & Kershaw, 2000). Given the merged identity operator of the Nurse Practitioner the clinical foreland is Would a standardized nursing language adequately document the patient care delivered by a nurse practitioner? The Search for Clinical Data Data are discreet entities that in of themselves have no meaning. The search for data cerebrate to the clinical question was conducted through the Walden Library Health Science and nurse Databases.selecti ve information TO WISDOM 3 Using the search words Nurse Practitioner and Standardized nurse Language, both the CINHAL/Medline and the OVID data bases were queried. The search identified 6 articles. According to Bernstein (2009), The Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom hierarchy is based on filtration and reduction, so to select the roughly germane(predicate) articles, the titles and the keywords of the articles were reviewed first. This resulted in one article that did not contain the search words to be elimiated from further review. Translating Clinical Data to InformationTo further valuate the usefulness of the 5 remaining articles, their abstracts were read to identify any relevant information. Information is data that has some meaning to it. Davenport and Prusak (1989) describes information as data that makes a difference to the receiver of the data. The data which is now aggregated into informational sentences and paragraphs (complete thoughts) break-dance that the NANDA bre ast feeding Diagnoses, the Iowa care for Interventions, and Iowa Nursing Outcomes Classification SNLs have been explored for use in Nurse Practitioner practice.This is information as it has context to the reason the writings search is being performed. Linking Information to Knowledge In the DIKW continuum, Knowledge is transform from Information At the knowledge stage in Englebarts & Nelsons (2002) DIKW model, an increased take aim of complexity in thinking must occur as a result of the increasing occurrences of interrelationships between information and knowledge (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2012 ).Davenport and Pursak also describe the knowledge stage of the continuum as a direct of higher regulate of thinking and go on to describe some of the higher level thinking actions that turn information into knowledge. DATA TO WISDOM 4 1 such action is Comparison i. e. How does this information compare to opposite know facts ? In this case the information found was about one fictitious c haracter of SNL, but it known that there are about 13 dissimilar SNLs in existence. Another action is making Connections i. e. How does this information relate to other pertinent musical themes? In this situation another pertinent topic in NP practice is e-Prescribing.How does the use of an SNL relate to e-prescribing? Thus far the knowledge gleaned is not enough information has been found to answer the clinical question as written. WisdomKnowledge Applied in Meaningful Ways. tooshie informatics be used to gain wisdom? Interestingly the concept of wisdom has been eliminated from many DIKW models (DIK models) because according to Davenport and Prusak(1989) there is enough difficulty distinguishing among the terzetto related concepts of data, information and knowledge and so higher-order concepts such as wisdom and insight have been lumped into the category of knowledge.There are differences in delimitate what wisdom is. According to Bernstien (2009) wisdom means an ability to se e the semipermanent consequences of any act. Or wisdom is intimate when and how to apply knowledge to complex problems or needs (Englebart & Nelson, 2012). In this case Wisdom is knowing that more research needs to be done on the topic of SNLs and NP practice in order to determine if standardized nursing language adequately applies to NP practice. It is what nurses do with the information available or lack of information available in informatic systems that creates wise decision making.Summary In nursing, Data- Information- Knowledge-Wisdom continuum models help depict the critical thinking nurses use to provide patient care. In information science DIKW models depict information management systems. DATA TO WISDOM 5 Data and Information can be stored in the databases of information systems in the forms of numbers, symbols and words that in of themselves have no meaning. It is just when data and information have context and meaning and are the right way applied to a problem that th ey are transformed into Knowledge and Wisdom in the minds of the users of these information systems. DATA TO WISDOM 6 References American Nurses Association. (2008). Nursing informatics Scope & standards of practice. Silver Springs, MD Bernstein, J. H. 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