C468 Nursing Informatics - WGU

Wisdom - Using knowledge and experience to manage and solve problems Knowledge - Synthesis of information from several sources to produce a single concept or idea Information - Data that has been interpreted Data - a collection of numbers, characters, or facts that are gathered according to some perceived need for analysis Knowledge worker - Individual with a high degree of expertise, education, or experience who creates, distributes, and applies knowledge Knowledge builder - One who examines, interprets, and compares clinical data and trends with an eye toward improving clinical practice based on the available evidence Knowledge user - Comparing individual patient data with existing nursing knowledge Information user - One who interprets clinical data and uses it to monitor patients and aid with decision making Information literacy - Knowing when and how to find and evaluate the quality of information Information science - Incorporates features from 5 other sciences communication science, computer science, social science, library science, cognitive science Information System - Hardware and software that make up an organizations IT infrastructure Information processing - The acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information