WGU 468 GRADED A+
Data gatherer -✔✔In this role the nurse collects clinical data such as vital signs.
Information user. -✔✔The nurse interprets and structures clinical data, such as a client's report of
experienced pain, into information that can then be used to aid clinical decision making and patient
monitoring over time. Quality assurance and infection control activities exemplify other ways in
which nurses use information to detect patterns.
• Knowledge user. -✔✔This role is seen when individual patient data are compared with existing
nursing knowledge.
Knowledge builder -✔✔Nurses display this role when they aggregate clinical data and show patterns
across patients that serve to create new knowledge or can be interpreted within the context of
existing nursing knowledge.
knowledge management -✔✔refers to the creation of systems that enable organizations to tap into
the knowledge, experiences, and creativity of their staff to improve their performance
Informatics -✔✔is the science and art of turning data into information
Medical informatics -✔✔refers to the application of informatics to all of the healthcare disciplines as
well as to the practice of medicine.
Nursing informatics -✔✔may be broadly defined as the use of information and computer technology
to support all aspects of nursing practice, including direct delivery of care, administration, education,
and research. The definition of nursing informatics is evolving as advances occur in nursing practice
and technology;
Information literacy -✔✔has a broader meaning. Information literacy is defined as the ability to
recognize when information is needed as well as the skills to find, evaluate, and use needed
information effectively
Data gatherer -✔✔In this role the nurse collects clinical data such as vital signs.
Information user. -✔✔The nurse interprets and structures clinical data, such as a client's report of
experienced pain, into information that can then be used to aid clinical decision making and patient
monitoring over time. Quality assurance and infection control activities exemplify other ways in
which nurses use information to detect patterns.
• Knowledge user. -✔✔This role is seen when individual patient data are compared with existing
nursing knowledge.
Knowledge builder -✔✔Nurses display this role when they aggregate clinical data and show patterns
across patients that serve to create new knowledge or can be interpreted within the context of
existing nursing knowledge.
knowledge management -✔✔refers to the creation of systems that enable organizations to tap into
the knowledge, experiences, and creativity of their staff to improve their performance
Informatics -✔✔is the science and art of turning data into information
Medical informatics -✔✔refers to the application of informatics to all of the healthcare disciplines as
well as to the practice of medicine.
Nursing informatics -✔✔may be broadly defined as the use of information and computer technology
to support all aspects of nursing practice, including direct delivery of care, administration, education,
and research. The definition of nursing informatics is evolving as advances occur in nursing practice
and technology;
Information literacy -✔✔has a broader meaning. Information literacy is defined as the ability to
recognize when information is needed as well as the skills to find, evaluate, and use needed
information effectively
