NR 512 Fundamentals of Nursing Informatics week 2

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512 WK2 TD How does the concept of wisdom in nursing informatics compare to the concept of professional nursing judgment? What is DIKW and how do you "use" it in your practice? Hi Dr. Jann and Clas... smates, Nursing is a field that integrates “hard” science of the biologics and technology with different aspects of social and psychological sciences. It is a collage that requires ascending levels of learning and wisdom to transform into practice. This is why theories are important, not only in defining concepts and levels, they provide the strructures within which nursing practices informatics. When I think of wisdom versus nursing judgment, I think of Patricia Benner’s “From Novice to Expert.” In this theory, Benner identified five stages of clinical competence that reflect on the transition of a nurse from the novice stage of abstract principles, to the pain of concrete experiences in the expert stage, and the ability to view the complete picture of a clinical situation (Harnegie, 2012). As nurses become competent in the clinical areas that they are in, knowledge and experiences provide them with the wisdom to process clinical data and reasoning in making nursing judgments. Thus, Clinical reasoning is used interchangeably with terms such as clinical judgment, problem solving, decision making and critical thinking. Hence clinical reasoning can reflect in the DIKW transformation. Nurses use clinical reasoning to sort data, interpret and compare the information from the data provided, assess and use the knowledge to make clinical judgments to offer the patients the best outcome possible. For this to be effective, nurses must be introduced to the concept of informatics and provided the basic language and skills required for accessing patient data, then navigate and locate pertinent information, ascertain the specific knowledge that would contribute to the making of clinical judgment (Ronquillo, Currie & Rodney, 2016). [Show More]

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