NR 542

Purpose This paper is intended to produce a plan for developing the database that must be submitted in Week 7 of this course. Students will gain experience in addressing key elements of a database plan. Requirements: This 2-to-4-page paper presents a database plan for a nursing or healthcare problem dealt with in the past or active in the present. Explain the problem and the reason(s) a database is needed. Provide a conceptual data model for the planned database. Name all the entities planned...

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 Micro...

Purpose This paper is intended to produce a plan for developing the database that must be submitted in Week 7 of this course. Students will gain experience in addressing key elements of a database plan. Requirements: This 2-to-4-page paper presents a database plan for a nursing or healthcare problem dealt with in the past or active in the present. Explain the problem and the reason(s) a database is needed. Provide a conceptual data model for the planned database. Name all the entities planned...

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...

NR 542 Week 5 Course Project Assignment; Relational Schema

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

Standardizing language and data concepts are common problems informatics nursing specialists face when implementing projects and EMR systems. • Determine if your organization uses a nursing nomenclature recognized by the American Nurses Association. • Determine if data concepts such as Length of Stay (LOS) are standardized across the organization. • Do these terms clearly and comprehensively represent nursing care and nursing practice at your work setting? Why or why not? • If your w...

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.