Health Informatics.pptx-Semester II Nursing

Clinical Knowledge and decision making - Knowledge management

1. CLINICAL KNOWLEDGE AND DECISION MAKING

2. Clinical decision making is a balance of experience, awareness, knowledge and information gathering, using appropriate assessment tools, your colleagues and evidence-based practice to guide you. Good decisions = safe care.

3. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT Definition: knowledge management is the conscious process of defining, structuring, retaining, and sharing the knowledge and experience of employees within an organization.

4. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN PRACTICE It can be separated into 3 main areas: Accumulating knowledge Storing knowledge Sharing knowledge

5. TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE Explicit Knowledge Implicit Knowledge Tacit Knowledge

6. EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE Explicit knowledge is knowledge that is straightforwardly expressed and shared between people. It has been clearly documented in a tangible form such as a Standard Operating Procedure or a marketing report.

7. IMPLICIT KNOWLEDGE

8. TACIT KNOWLEDGE Tacit knowledge refers to the knowledge, skills, and abilities an individual gains through experience that is often difficult to put into words or otherwise communicate. Tacit knowledge is sometimes known by a few alternate terms, such as: Experiential knowledge.

9. PROCESS OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

10. IMPORTANCE & BENEFITS OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

11. DECISION MAKING PROCESS

12. The Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine, Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT) is a standard vocabulary for diseases, symptoms, signs, specimen types, living organisms, procedures (includes diagnostic, surgical, and nursing procedures), chemicals (includes biological chemicals such as enzymes and proteins and compounds used in drug preparations), drugs, anatomy, physiological processes and functions, occupations, and social contexts (e.g., religion and ethnic group). SNOMED-CT has codes for more than 360,000 concepts in human and veterinary medicine.

13. MULTI AXIAL DESIGN