This document outlines different metastructures in nursing informatics including data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. It defines data as measurable facts without interpretation. Information is defined as data that has been interpreted and organized to acquire knowledge. Knowledge is information that has been learned through education and experience, providing understanding. Wisdom involves applying knowledge with insight and judgment to solve problems.

1. METASTRUCTURES OF
NURSING INFORMATICS

2. INFORMATION
 Information can be recorded as
signs, or transmitted as
signals.
 Information is any kind of
event that affects the state
of a dynamic system
 It is interpreted and analyze
Examples
 BP reading and Lab analysis

3. KNOWLEDGE
 a familiarity with someone or
something, which can include
facts, information, descriptio
ns, or skills acquired through
experience or education. It
can refer to the theoretical
or practical understanding of
a subject

4. WISDOM
 a deep understanding and
realization of
people, things, events or
situations, resulting in the
ability to apply
perceptions, judgements and
actions in keeping with this
understanding

5. DATA
 Data are typically the results
of measurements and can be
visualised using graphs or
images.
 lowest level of abstraction
from which information and
then knowledge are derived

6. Metastructure Description
Characters, num
bers, facts
Data Measurable
No
interpretation, no
meaning, observable
Metastructures of nursing informatics
Information With
interpretation, organized, analyzed, knowledge
acquired

7. Metastructure Description
Learned through
education, awareness
of
understanding, synthes
is of information
Knowledge
Undergone synthesis
and process
What is know and
Metastructure understood
Application of
knowledge with
Wisdom insight to manage and
solve problems, sense
of judgment