Concept analysis of cognitive artifacts

Cognitive artifacts--information displays that inform thought processes and increase knowledge--fulfill a fundamental role in distributed cognition. Cognitive work--the mental processes of selecting and evaluating data, reasoning, and making decisions--is guided and informed by cognitive artifacts,...

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Published inAdvances in nursing science Vol. 33; no. 4; p. 352
Main Authors McLane, Sharon, Turley, James P, Esquivel, Adol, Engebretson, Joan, Smith, Kimberly A, Wood, Geri L, Zhang, Jiajie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.10.2010
Subjects
Cognition
Communications Media
Concept Formation
Humans
Knowledge
Nursing
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Summary:Cognitive artifacts--information displays that inform thought processes and increase knowledge--fulfill a fundamental role in distributed cognition. Cognitive work--the mental processes of selecting and evaluating data, reasoning, and making decisions--is guided and informed by cognitive artifacts, especially in clinical areas. The importance of cognitive artifacts to cognitive work suggests the need to study and comprehensively understand cognitive artifacts prepared and used by the clinical nurses and how these documents influence and guide nursing practice. This article identifies and describes the attributes of effectively constructed cognitive artifacts using the concept analysis process described by Walker and Avant.
ISSN:1550-5014
DOI:10.1097/ANS.0b013e3181fb2ed6