Data - ✔✔Collection of numbers, characters, or facts that are gathered according to some perceived
need for analysis and possibly action at a later point in time
information - ✔✔Data that has been interpreted
knowledge - ✔✔synthesis of information from several sources to produce a single concept
information technology - ✔✔The management and processing of information with the assistance of
computers
wisdom - ✔✔Occurs when knowledge is used appropriately to manage and solve problems
data gatherer - ✔✔In this role of the nurse collects clinical data such as vital signs
information user - ✔✔The nurse interprets and structures clinical data such as a clients report of
experience pain and to information that can be used to eight clinical decision making and patient
monitoring overtime quality assurance and infection control activities exemplify other ways in which
nurses use information to detect patterns
Knowledge user - ✔✔This role as seen one individual patient data or compared with existing nursing
knowledge
Knowledge builder - ✔✔Nurses display this role when the aggregate clinical data into patterns across
patients that serve to create new knowledge or can be interpreted within the context of existing
nursing knowledge
knowledge management - ✔✔The creation of systems that enable organizations to tap in to the
knowledge experiences in creativity and their staff to improve their performance
Informatics - ✔✔The science and art of turning data into information
, Medical informatics - ✔✔Application of informatics to all of the healthcare disciplines as well as to
the practice of medicine
Nursing informatics - ✔✔Broadly defined as the use of information and computer technology to
support all aspects of nursing practice including the direct delivery of care administration education
and research
computer literacy - ✔✔Popular term used to refer to a familiar Arity with the use of personal
computers including the use of software tools such as word processing spreadsheets databases and
presentation Graphics and email
Information literacy - ✔✔The ability to recognize when information is needed as well as the skills to
find evaluate and use the needed information effectively
Informatics Nurse and skills - ✔✔Individual has advance preparation and information management
Fiscal management interrogation of multidisciplinary language/standards of care skills in critical
thinking data management and processing decision-making and system development and computer
skills identification and provision of data for decision-making
INS: Informatics Nurse Specialist - ✔✔Sophisticated Level of understanding and skills and information
management and computer technology demonstrating most of the Competencies seen at the
previous three levels. The INS is the innovator who sees the broad version of what is possible and
how it may be attained. The ANA calls for educational preparation for the INS that enables him or her
to conduct informatics research and generate informatics theory.
information literacy - ✔✔The ability to recognize when information is needed as well as the skills to
find, evaluate and use needed information effectively
Information science - ✔✔This is the focus on how to gather, process and transform information into
knowledge. It also incorporates features from these 5 other sciences: communication science,
computer science, social science, library science and cognitive science
Knowledge Workers - ✔✔Nurses in this this type of role are continuous learners, use technology to
support and inform nursing practice, and generate knowledge as a product