
CHAPTER 1
I
Objectives
Nursing Science and the
Foundation of Knowledge
Kathleen Mastrian and Dee McGonigle
1. 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 book.
3. Explain the relationship among knowledge acquisi-
tion, knowledge processing, knowledge generation,
knowledge dissemination, and wisdom.
INTRODUCTION
Nursing informatics is defined as the combination of nursing science,
information science, and computer science. This chapter focuses on
nursing science as one of the building blocks of nursing informatics,