Essay FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING INFORMATICS (NR 512)

NR 512 Week 2 Discussion: Wisdom Versus Judgement Dr. Bev & Class, Informatics helps to facilitate data, information, knowledge, & wisdom & in nursing, wisdom is a combination of knowledge & experience that helps us to have a higher common sense & insight that will thus help us to have a sounder clinical judgement. Per McGonigle, Hunter, Sipes & Hebda (2014) ‘wisdom is the ability to use knowledge & experience to heighten common sense, perceptions & the ability to think critically & use sound clinical judgement’. It is knowing how & when to apply knowledge. A nurses’ judgement is usually achieved by education & experience. With this in mind wisdom & judgement are very similar. Each requires a knowledge base & then an internal ability to know how & when to apply that internal knowledge & wisdom. Our continuing education requirements is one way we will always be adding to our knowledge database & thus increasing our wisdom along with our many experiences.