NR542 All Weeks Discussions Latest 2021 January

NR542 Managing Data and Information

Week 1 Discussion

Nurses in clinical practice manage most of the patient-related data and transform that data into usable information. Think about a data-management problem that could be resolved with a database. Explain the problem in detail, support the need to solve the problem with evidence from scholarly literature, and explain why you think a database is a reasonable solution. Consider situations about patient care, nursing practices, leadership or management, or education.. Think about a situation for which you wish to capture data over a long time period and for which you want to study various relationships. Provide three questions that you might want to ask of the database.

For example, in a database of patient falls for the entire hospital, you might ask the following questions.

• How many units had patient falls over the last year?

• On a specific unit with a high number of falls, what was the nurse/patient ratio at the time of each fall?

• Which patients on six specific units have fall-risk assessments?

Avoid questions about database functions or capabilities or questions about obtaining the data. For this course, we will assume those kinds of problems can be managed. The questions need to focus on who, what, when, where, or how aspects of the problem you want to solve. It could be helpful to your student peers to offer feedback on their questions.

(Please be aware that for the initial posting, in order to reach an acceptable level of performance, two scholarly sources must be presented. This is different from what you are used to in your core courses.  Please see discussion guidelines and rubric below.)

 

NR542 Managing Data and Information

Week 2 Discussion

Name two-to-five entities (also known as entity classes in your text) that will be part of your database. Explain why you have chosen these entities. Using the Chen format as shown and discussed in the Oppel text, draw an entity-relationship (E-R) diagram for two entities including their relationship; for one of the entities, also name the identifier. Attach the diagram to your discussion post as a PDF document. (Hand drawn diagrams are not acceptable; you may utilize a software program or Microsoft Word symbols to depict your diagram aspects).

 

NR542 Managing Data and Information

Week 3 Discussion

Standardizing language and data concepts are common problems informatics nursing specialists face when implementing projects and EMR systems.

o             Determine if your organization uses a nursing nomenclature recognized by the American Nurses Association.

o             Determine if data concepts such as Length of Stay (LOS) are standardized across the organization.

o             Do these terms clearly and comprehensively represent nursing care and nursing practice at your work setting? Why or why not?

o             If your work setting does not use a formal nursing nomenclature, apply these questions to the terms that are used.

o             Second, consider your database project. Could an ANA-recognized nomenclature be used in your database? Why or why not?

 

NR542 Managing Data and Information

Week 4 Discussion

Database Life Cycle

Based on the study phase of your database life cycle, describe how and why you selected the following:

•             Entities, Attributes and determined entity relationships

•             Describe in detail the model of design phase you are in with your database project and rationale.

 

NR542 Managing Data and Information

Week 5 Discussion

Strategies

Creating a database requires strategy. Without strategy and planning you will collect mounds of meaningless information that you are unable to turn into knowledge. Think about the information –management strategies and techniques that go into developing a database.  Share your strategy with the team this week including:

•             How might your selected information strategy be used for managing healthcare data/information in your facility to support evidence-based practice?

•             In this selected information strategy, what is the most difficult concept for you? Why is this concept difficult?

•             How does your current work setting use any of these techniques?

Include a Database Project Update:

•             What challenges have you experienced in converting the data model to a relational schema?

•             Explain the approach you took to develop a form and a view.

•             What insights about databases have you gained from converting the data model?

 

 

NR542 Managing Data and Information

Week 6 Discussion

Database Life Cycle

As you update your colleagues on your database project this week and.  discuss your testing plan including:

•             Current phase ie implementation, operations, maintenance and evolution

•             why the phase is important

•             testing plan in  excel or access

•             continuation beyond this term

 

NR542 Managing Data and Information

Week 7 Discussion

Decision Probabilities

As you analyze your data, the use of decision trees, predictive and prescriptive analytics can be helpful to consider.   In addition, you will also be applying evidence based practice findings and benchmarking as part of your analysis.

Share how you will use the tools in your current project and the potential opportunities for further application as you analyze the data in more depth.