Knowledge management is incredibly important for nursing, especially for evidence-based practice (Nelson & Staggers, 2016). The key components of knowledge management include its acquisition (for example, through education) and sharing and dissemination (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2017). Moreover, knowledge management also involves the development of knowledge (search for it through, for example, data mining), it’s processing (analysis), and its application (for example, its integration into practice, its use for the development of guidelines, and so on) (Nelson & Staggers, 2016; McGonigle & Mastrian, 2017). It is apparent that the mentioned components are of importance for the advanced nursing practice.
Indeed, both the modern literature and my personal experience indicate that education is a requirement for advanced nursing practice. Similarly, the process of sharing and disseminating knowledge is critical for nursing, and at my workplace, I have been involved in it during the work with less experienced nurses, as well as correctional institution officers. Regarding knowledge development, analysis, and application, these elements seem to be particularly useful for evidence-based practice and quality improvement efforts.
Whenever I was a part of such activities, I was involved in the search for the appropriate evidence, analysis of the sources that provided it, its evaluation, and, eventually, application. Given the centrality of evidence-based practice to advanced nursing, I suppose that I will be engaged in all the above-mentioned activities in the future as well. In summary, from the perspective of advanced nursing practice, knowledge management is a multidimensional and crucial activity that includes acquisition, retrieval, analysis, and application.
References
McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. (2017). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Nelson, R., & Staggers, N. (2016). Health informatics. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier Health Sciences.