Decision Making Frame Work in Nursing Informatics
Nowadays, nursing professionals make decisions everyday in a way that they don't even realize. Some of these professionals don't take full notice on exactly how these decisions are going to affect their duties and the lives of their patients sooner or later. This is the reason why decision making within the nursing setting must be made under a very strict knowledge management framework and environment in order to enable the operation of nurses within the knowledge management process. In this paper I present how I would employ the data, information, knowledge, and wisdom continuum in determining the answers to the question "Why is Ambulation needed post operative?"
The process
Before delving into the details on how I would employ the knowledge management process in answering the question at hand, I must point out that every individual's ability to solve as well as make decisions is limited by the availability of knowledge. The availability of knowledge is therefore a critical component of decisions making process.As Kim et al. (2004) noted, a very valid way of identifying the knowledge requirements is the decision-making oriented approach. A look at the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom continuum in figure 1 below made me realize that it is designed as well as structured to support the entire decision making process. In this case, it would help me in developing an idea as well as following a sequence of stages in building my decision (McGonigle...
In other word, I would have to first of all know the goals of the procedure. The next step would be the collection of available information and data and then subsequently analyzing the collected information and data for meaning. In other words, according to the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom continuum, we must first embark on data collection process. This process would involve the naming of the databases, collection of the data as well as organizing the data into meaningful pieces of information. The work of Bowett (2009) insisted on the need for looking for the most relevant and the most updated data for the purpose of decision making. This would ensure that our decision is based on the most up-to-data information.
The next step would be the collection of the information and then interpreting the information. This information is interpreted to gain knowledge. Now using this knowledge, we interpret the information and integrate in into our understanding. The next step would then be the application of wisdom into the process. This means that we must integrate our passion into the process…
