Week 5: From Data to Knowledge and Wisdom!

How does data become knowledge and finally wisdom? Explain the relationship between knowledge acquisition, knowledge processing, knowledge generation, knowledge dissemination, and wisdom. Then provide examples from your clinical practice (or past work experiences) according to the following:

1. Examples of knowledge acquisition
2. Examples of knowledge generation
3. Examples of knowledge processing
4. Examples of knowledge dissemination
5. Examples of the use of feedback

This week in discussion, we talk about how we use data to gain knowledge and wisdom.  How do we use knowledge acquisition, knowledge processing, knowledge generation, knowledge dissemination, and wisdom.  What is it like going through the process from knowledge acquisition to wisdom. Can you think of any examples of these from your clinical practice/ past work experiences. Have you seen a nurse use data to figure out complex patient problems?  

Criteria

APA format

2-3 Reference ( Use one reference from the book the rest you can find outside)