Using the Data/Information/Knowledge/Wisdom Continuum

  Develop a research question relevant to Geriatric Nursingand relate how you would work through the progression from data to information, knowledge, and wisdom. Develop a clinical question related to your geriatric nursing that you would like to explore Using the continuum of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom, determine how you would go about researching your question. Identify which of these databases you would use to find the information or data you need. • Once you have identified useful databases, how would you go about finding the most relevant articles and information? • Consider how you would extract the relevant information from the articles. • 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? Write a 3 pages 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. Your paper must also include a title page, an introduction, a summary, and a reference page.