Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom Continuum
Nursing informatics is the integration of computer science and data science of nursing to recognize, manage and process significant information to cultivate knowledge that foster nursing practice (American Nurses Association, 2015). The development of innovative technology has bestowed nurses with wider ability to research quandary areas to make intelligent judgments for their patients through evidence-based practice principles. According to American Nurses Association (2015), data, information, knowledge, and wisdom, (DIKW) are imperative for a quality health care. The DIKW continuum is a structure that channels nurses through a four-step process of research. The intent of this paper is to cultivate a research question and illuminate researching databases to acquire data, knowledge, information, and wisdom to answer the scientific question.
Clinical Question
Nurses are the frontline in the health care settings, and it is imperative that the patients’ pain are managed effectively and accurately. Acute pain triggers stress response to the human body, individuals’ peripheral and central nervous system are enmeshed with patients’ insight of pain (Glowacki, 2015). According to Glowacki (20015), inadequate pain control of a patient triggers an impaired immune system that initiates postoperative infections, and lag in healing (Glowacki, 2015). Adequate pain control is imperative for healing and it “enhances earlier mobility and lessens the complications of ileus, urinary retention, and myocardial infarction” (Glowacki, 2015, p. 35). This paper will illuminate the method of utilizing the DIKW continuum to research the scientific question “In patients undertaking a total knee arthroplasty, does the use of Exparel enhance the patients’ pain postoperatively compared to femoral nerve block (FNB)? Data to Information Data are unrefined solitary evidence, which can characterize as “patients’ diagnosis, weight, age, or letter, pictures; and video” (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015, p. 20; American Nurses Association, 2015), acquired from arrays of sources (American Nurses Association, 2015). The Walden library and Google plus were exploited to explore data for my research question. The nursing databases CINAHL Plus and OVID Nursing Journals were utilized with the search keywords of Exparel and postoperative pain. The CINAHL Plus provided me with greater than 2,000 hits while OVID supplied only three. I browsed through some of the headings and selected the ones that related to my topic. Data are inputted into electronic health records (EHRs) from report supplied from loved ones, patients, and healthcare providers; hence, data interpretation enhances information. The health care facilities have arrays of databases to proctor pain management, and the HCAHPS scores are one of the sources. According to Society of Hospital Medicine (2016), the data from a post-discharge review proctor patients’ contentment results while hospitalized related to their pain control and health care staff ability to maintain pain-free for patients, these structures conveys evidence knowledge to health care providers to aid high-quality patient care and satisfaction scores. Information to Knowledge Information is a combination of the data and their meanings. …show more content…
Data processed to provide a meaningful picture to the user in a particular context (Topaz, 2013). The proper utilization of knowledge comprises incorporation of the experimental, tenet principle of ethics, individual, and artistic knowledge in the development of action application (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015). Information is meaningful if it answers the research questions. In Indiana, a research analysis conducted on eighty patients that undertook a total knee replacement system, the patients were grouped into two, one obtained the femoral nerve block (FNB) preoperatively, while the other group obtained Exparel intraoperatively (Surdam, Baynes, & Arce, 2015). The analysis result indicated swift recovery time on the patients that obtained the Exparel than counterparts, the Exparel patients’ ambulated same day after the surgery, and required a reduced hospital length of stay (Surdam, Baynes, & Arce, 2015). Knowledge to Wisdom According to McGonigle and Mastrian (2015), harnessing the knowledge acquired corrected is wisdom, and wisdom directs the health care professionals’ on patients’ assessments and evaluations into the correct action. The Indiana hospital revised their Intraoperative and postoperative pain management practice following the Exparel study result. The World Health Organization recognized that unsatisfactory patients’ pain management is unprincipled and breach of their fundamental human right (Glowacki, 2015). In addition, whilst dementia patients’ inability to speak of pain alleged to be an issue related to
Nursing informatics is the integration of computer science and data science of nursing to recognize, manage and process significant information to cultivate knowledge that foster nursing practice (American Nurses Association, 2015). The development of innovative technology has bestowed nurses with wider ability to research quandary areas to make intelligent judgments for their patients through evidence-based practice principles. According to American Nurses Association (2015), data, information, knowledge, and wisdom, (DIKW) are imperative for a quality health care. The DIKW continuum is a structure that channels nurses through a four-step process of research. The intent of this paper is to cultivate a research question and illuminate researching databases to acquire data, knowledge, information, and wisdom to answer the scientific question.
Clinical Question
Nurses are the frontline in the health care settings, and it is imperative that the patients’ pain are managed effectively and accurately. Acute pain triggers stress response to the human body, individuals’ peripheral and central nervous system are enmeshed with patients’ insight of pain (Glowacki, 2015). According to Glowacki (20015), inadequate pain control of a patient triggers an impaired immune system that initiates postoperative infections, and lag in healing (Glowacki, 2015). Adequate pain control is imperative for healing and it “enhances earlier mobility and lessens the complications of ileus, urinary retention, and myocardial infarction” (Glowacki, 2015, p. 35). This paper will illuminate the method of utilizing the DIKW continuum to research the scientific question “In patients undertaking a total knee arthroplasty, does the use of Exparel enhance the patients’ pain postoperatively compared to femoral nerve block (FNB)? Data to Information Data are unrefined solitary evidence, which can characterize as “patients’ diagnosis, weight, age, or letter, pictures; and video” (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015, p. 20; American Nurses Association, 2015), acquired from arrays of sources (American Nurses Association, 2015). The Walden library and Google plus were exploited to explore data for my research question. The nursing databases CINAHL Plus and OVID Nursing Journals were utilized with the search keywords of Exparel and postoperative pain. The CINAHL Plus provided me with greater than 2,000 hits while OVID supplied only three. I browsed through some of the headings and selected the ones that related to my topic. Data are inputted into electronic health records (EHRs) from report supplied from loved ones, patients, and healthcare providers; hence, data interpretation enhances information. The health care facilities have arrays of databases to proctor pain management, and the HCAHPS scores are one of the sources. According to Society of Hospital Medicine (2016), the data from a post-discharge review proctor patients’ contentment results while hospitalized related to their pain control and health care staff ability to maintain pain-free for patients, these structures conveys evidence knowledge to health care providers to aid high-quality patient care and satisfaction scores. Information to Knowledge Information is a combination of the data and their meanings. …show more content…
Data processed to provide a meaningful picture to the user in a particular context (Topaz, 2013). The proper utilization of knowledge comprises incorporation of the experimental, tenet principle of ethics, individual, and artistic knowledge in the development of action application (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015). Information is meaningful if it answers the research questions. In Indiana, a research analysis conducted on eighty patients that undertook a total knee replacement system, the patients were grouped into two, one obtained the femoral nerve block (FNB) preoperatively, while the other group obtained Exparel intraoperatively (Surdam, Baynes, & Arce, 2015). The analysis result indicated swift recovery time on the patients that obtained the Exparel than counterparts, the Exparel patients’ ambulated same day after the surgery, and required a reduced hospital length of stay (Surdam, Baynes, & Arce, 2015). Knowledge to Wisdom According to McGonigle and Mastrian (2015), harnessing the knowledge acquired corrected is wisdom, and wisdom directs the health care professionals’ on patients’ assessments and evaluations into the correct action. The Indiana hospital revised their Intraoperative and postoperative pain management practice following the Exparel study result. The World Health Organization recognized that unsatisfactory patients’ pain management is unprincipled and breach of their fundamental human right (Glowacki, 2015). In addition, whilst dementia patients’ inability to speak of pain alleged to be an issue related to