Yes, I believe clinical reasoning is an example of the DIKW transformation. Clinical reasoning is practice among nurses every day. Clinical reasoning is display in all nurses’ care activities and choices, in diagnosing, in choosing appropriate interventions and evaluating results. Nurses use clinical reasoning to gather and interpret data which is transformed into information which is then transformed to knowledge and with the new knowledge comes wisdom which is utilizes to make clinical decisions to provide the best patient care and outcome. As a nurse expands in clinical competence and experience he or she is better prepared with the wisdom to make sound nursing judgments.
For example, when patients come to the cancer center, they will get