Define nursing science and its relationship to various nursing roles and nursing informatics.
2. Introduce the Foundation of Knowledge model as the organizing conceptual framework for the text.
3. Explain the relationships among knowledge acquisition, knowledge processing, knowledge generation, knowledge dissemination, and wisdom.
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Introduction Nursing informatics has been traditionally defined as a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. This chapter focuses on nursing science as one of the building blocks of nurs- ing informatics. As depicted in Figure 1-1, the traditional definition of nursing
Nursing science and the Foundation of Knowledge Dee McGonigle and Kathleen Mastrian
Figure 1-1 Building Blocks of Nursing Informatics
Nursing Informatics
Nursing Science
Computer Science
Cognitive Science
Information Science