Assignment task:
Your hospital's evidence-based practice council has looked at levels of traditional research and ways to incorporate evidence into care, with an emphasis on building evidence into clinical pathways used to guide care and documentation. As the APRN leading the council, you believe that the members now demonstrate a good grasp of different levels of research findings and are making excellent progress with their work to integrate evidence into practice. Your chief nursing officer, however, states that this is not enough: He expects to see the integration of findings from big data at the point of care. Council members have expressed great anxiety relative to the push to use big data findings, protesting that they have limited knowledge about big data, let alone how to make the best use of its related findings.
Questions to answer:
Q1. As the APRN leading the council, what would be the argument for or against the decision by the chief nursing officer? Defend your position.
Q2. Differences between data and big data.