Consider what you currently know about this topic. What additional information would you need to answer the question?
Describe a situation that you have faced recently that presented an ethical dilemma. How would you evaluate your actions in this situation to determine whether or not they were good or virtuous?
August 7, 2017You just hired a former individual tax preparer to be in your tax accounting department. While she has a degree in taxation, all her experience has focused on individual returns.To make sure she completely understands the differences between individual and business tax accounting, you ask her to review some of the materials from her college courses in taxation.
August 7, 2017Consider what you currently know about this topic. What additional information would you need to answer the question?
- Review the information in Figure 6-2 in Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge.
- Develop a clinical question related to your area of practice that you would like to explore.
- Consider what you currently know about this topic. What additional information would you need to answer the question?
- Using the continuum of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom, determine how you would go about researching your question.
o Explore the available databases in the Walden Library. Identify which of these databases you would use to find the information or data you need.
o Once you have identified useful databases, how would you go about finding the most relevant articles and information?
o Consider how you would extract the relevant information from the articles.
o How would you take the information and organize it in a way that was useful? How could you take the step from simply having useful knowledge to gaining wisdom?
To complete:
Write a 3- to 4-page paper that addresses the following:
- Summarize the question you developed, and then relate how you would work through the four steps of the data, information, knowledge, wisdom continuum. Be specific.
o Identify the databases and search words you would use.
o Relate how you would take the information gleaned and turn it into useable knowledge.
- Can informatics be used to gain wisdom? Describe how you would progress from simply having useful knowledge to the wisdom to make decisions about the information you have found during your database search.
Reminder: The School of Nursing requires that all papers submitted include a title page, introduction, summary, and references, in APA format
Course Readings
- American Nurses Association. (2015).Nursing informatics: Scope & standards of practice (2nd ed.).Silver Springs, MD: Author.
- McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2012).Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
