NR 566 Midterm Exam Study Guide.
• General principles of Nursing Informatics
o Nursing informatics (NI) is the specialty that integrates nursing science
with multiple information and analytical sciences to identify, define,
manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in
nursing practice.
o nursing science, information science, computer science and cognitive
science
o The conceptual framework underpinning the science and practice of NI
centers on the core concepts of data, information, knowledge, and
wisdom, also known as the DIKW paradigm.
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• Knowledge
o The awareness and understanding of a set of information and ways that
information can be made useful to support a specific task or arrive at a decision
o Nurses have a long history of collecting data, turning it into information,
creating knowledge, and ultimately wisdom. This process is known as
knowledge work and nurses are knowledge workers. Technology can aid
knowledge work by helping nurses to collect data, see trends, process
information, and create knowledge that can be used to create wisdom, but
nurses need to understand the processes that allow this to happen as well
as the tools that Health information technology (HIT) offers them
o Knowledge is the awareness and understanding of a set of information
and ways that information can be made useful to support a specific task or
arrive at a decision. When we apply previous knowledge to data, we
convert those data into information, and information into new knowledge—
that is, an understanding of which interventions are appropriate in
practice. Thus information is data made functional through the application
of knowledge.
• Wisdom
o Applying knowledge in a practical way or translating knowledge into
actions without conscious thought.
o Wisdom is the appropriate application of knowledge to a specific situation.
In the practice of nursing science, one expects actions to be ultimately
• General principles of Nursing Informatics
o Nursing informatics (NI) is the specialty that integrates nursing science
with multiple information and analytical sciences to identify, define,
manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in
nursing practice.
o nursing science, information science, computer science and cognitive
science
o The conceptual framework underpinning the science and practice of NI
centers on the core concepts of data, information, knowledge, and
wisdom, also known as the DIKW paradigm.
o
o
• Knowledge
o The awareness and understanding of a set of information and ways that
information can be made useful to support a specific task or arrive at a decision
o Nurses have a long history of collecting data, turning it into information,
creating knowledge, and ultimately wisdom. This process is known as
knowledge work and nurses are knowledge workers. Technology can aid
knowledge work by helping nurses to collect data, see trends, process
information, and create knowledge that can be used to create wisdom, but
nurses need to understand the processes that allow this to happen as well
as the tools that Health information technology (HIT) offers them
o Knowledge is the awareness and understanding of a set of information
and ways that information can be made useful to support a specific task or
arrive at a decision. When we apply previous knowledge to data, we
convert those data into information, and information into new knowledge—
that is, an understanding of which interventions are appropriate in
practice. Thus information is data made functional through the application
of knowledge.
• Wisdom
o Applying knowledge in a practical way or translating knowledge into
actions without conscious thought.
o Wisdom is the appropriate application of knowledge to a specific situation.
In the practice of nursing science, one expects actions to be ultimately
