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 Classmates,
Nursing is
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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 Classmates,
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).
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