Importance of Advanced Databases in Nursing
Title: The Benefits of Advanced Databases in Nursing Management
Businesses in this dynamic environment require a database management system as it provides a systematic and flexible way to store and manage a range of datasets along with various information in a synchronous manner. In the context of healthcare institutions, nurses are found to require vast amounts of information in order to accomplish their clients as well as educational needs that significantly influence the quality of the medical services. In this regard, an advanced database system plays a significant role in nursing management as it provides accessibility to a wide range of quantitative and qualitative information in an integrated, precise, and rapid manner. It is identified that medical or advanced database systems are found to be important and crucial in healthcare in terms of administration, education, research, and patient care. Thus, the following section is going to provide a brief illustration of the significance of advanced databases for nursing management. Application along with usability of SQL and advanced database systems in the nursing management and healthcare will also be underlined in the following sections.
Up-to-Date or advanced databases are found to have a significant impact in the nursing domain as the advanced databases provide nurses with new, updated, comprehensive, practical, evidence-based, and quick information that is effective for decision-making. This also enhances the opportunity of nurses to provide accurate and appropriate treatment to the respective patients. With the growing market competitiveness and changing patient care, nurses are required to access a wide range of healthcare information through which they can upgrade their skills, knowledge, and capabilities that enhance their chance to improve their professional practices [1]. On the other hand, it has also been identified that usage of advanced databases also helps to maintain effective communication with the clients or patients and improve the ability of nurses to respond effectively to the clinical questions. As databases include a wide range of information regarding healthcare practices, thus, nurses are able to enhance their skills towards dealing with clinical issues. Nurses can improve their ability to determine the best and appropriate clinical practice with research evidence while dealing with or offering services to the patients.
It is identified that with the progress and development of society, demands of people for different medical treatments have changed and upgraded constantly. In this regard, the author also underlines nursing quality or nursing quality management plays a significant role in improving patient care facilities and treatment. In this digital era, most of the healthcare institutions are found to incorporate marginal and modernised technologies such as Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and others to improve nursing practices by obtaining a wide range of data in real-time [2]. In this regard, having an advanced database system enhances the chance of the nurses to gain a wide range of information regarding fast-changing medical treatment and at the same time, healthcare institutions can provide continuous knowledge improvement to the nurses that positively influence overall treatment facilities.
Figure 1: Information flow in nursing practices through technologies
Benefits of Advanced Databases in Nursing and Healthcare
Strong management plays a significant role for every business entity to maintain a suitable workflow and improve the overall decision-making process. In this context, having effective nursing management improves overall healthcare practices and enhances the chance to meet the needs of patients accurately [3]. Data management or databases in healthcare are found to include a wide range of data sets obtained from different sources across organisations and providers. In most of the cases, nurses are failing to upgrade their skills and knowledge in patient care, which hinders their chance to offer appropriate treatment to meet the healthcare needs. In this regard, having advanced databases helps to obtain a holistic view about patients along with the diseases accurately in accordance to which they can understand their potential in the nursing domain.
It is seen that databases across the healthcare industry offer an appropriate system for managing, organising, and storing critical health-related information such as patient identification, finance, labs, billing, and others. Advanced databases help to keep this information confidential for the public and provide quick accessibility to the healthcare professionals like nurses so that they could utilise those data while offering critical treatment.
In nursing practices, healthcare professionals are required to deal with vast amounts of data sets. Utilisation of traditional or manual approaches to store and manage those data can generate complexities and lead to word discrepancies. In this regard, emerging technologies and advanced databases play a significant and crucial role in managing those data sets and offer nurses access to data whenever they are required [4].
On the other hand, efficiency, monitoring and tracking, information exchange, and quality assessment of healthcare are found to be key aspects that can be managed and supervised easily with the help of advanced databases. In most of the cases, it is identified that due to the usage of traditional approach to store and manage data, nurses are failing to analyse their role and responsibility that negatively influence upon patient’s care as well. Advanced databases in healthcare help nurses to understand their professional role by providing a wide range of information on the nursing domain. This in turn enhances the chance for healthcare professionals or nurses to undertake appropriate decisions and can deal with any kind of complex clinical situation accurately [5]. There are different types of advanced databases that are being utilised in healthcare delivery and nursing practices, which are being underlined in the next adjoining section.
Medical databases are found to serve a beneficial and crucial role in medical care that includes discipline of treatment, research, documentation, and patient care. It is identified that the healthcare industry has been constantly evolving and looking for new medical approaches to improve its services. Nursing management plays a significant role for healthcare institutions as it enhances the chance for meeting patients’ needs accurately [6]. Fig.2 underlines nursing management is found to involve a wide range of services including roster management, staff management, training management, education management of nurses, and others. Each of the mentioned activities requires strong and suitable database platforms where data related to the mentioned services can be managed and stored synchronously [7].
Enhancing Nursing Management with Advanced Databases
Figure 2: Features of nursing management
Nursing management can be considered as one of the integral parts of the overall healthcare management system. The performance and services facilities of healthcare organisations are found to be highly relied upon the way healthcare professionals or nurses’ deal and offer services to the respective patients. Organisations that fail to manage these activities or the performance of nurses accurately may not be able to provide critical treatment facilities and hinder their chance to establish brand loyalty within the target market [8].
Other than this, it is identified that nursing practices are found to be associated with proactive interaction with particular patients along with their friends and families. Establishing strong relationships with the respective patients enhances the chance for the nurses to provide appropriate healthcare services and meet patients’ needs. However, without having appropriate and prior knowledge about the way crucial treatment for complex patients needs to be dealt with, nurses or healthcare professionals may not show their practice commitment in accomplishing their specific duties.
Advanced databases in this regard play a significant role in improving interaction between providers and patients [9]. Databases that are being utilised in healthcare or nursing management systems support in assisting with treatment and diagnosis managing performance of nurses and minimise the occurrence of human error in overall healthcare management and operations.
It is identified that with the greening healthcare challenges, healthcare professionals are required to upgrade their skills and knowledge to provide appropriate care services. Advanced database platforms such as NCLEX RN Mastery, NCSBN Learning Extension, PEPID, and others are found to be utilised by nursing students and healthcare professionals to gain knowledge in the field of nursing and healthcare services [10].
For example, with the help of healthcare databases, nursing students, nurses, or healthcare professionals can utilise logging and reporting tools to track their respective operations. This, in turn, enables the healthcare providers to improve the quality and efficiency of patient care by obtaining a wide range of statistical evidence on appropriate treatment, pervasive diseases, and costs. Along with this, information obtained from the healthcare database enables nursing professionals to build their confidence level and capability to make informed decisions while dealing with certain complex healthcare situations.
It is identified that every second wide range of data sets are being generated across the healthcare sector, which is required to be minimised and stored securely to obtain valuable insight. Fig.3 underlines that between the financial years 2018 to 2025, healthcare data is projected to increase at the CAGR rate of 36% as compared to the other business sectors [11].
Figure 3: Growth of healthcare data
Considering this evidence, it can be mentioned that application and adoption of advanced databases with emerging healthcare technology-based platforms enhance the chance for the nursing professionals to upgrade their knowledge. With the change in healthcare needs, advanced databases enable nurses to analyse their existing skills and by utilising information stored in the healthcare databases, they can accurately accomplish their professional responsibilities [12]. There are different types of advanced database systems that are being utilised with the nursing management and those are underlined in the next adjacent section.
Challenges in Nursing Management and How Databases Help Address Them
Proliferation of technology has improvised and modernised the way healthcare institutions offered services and care facilities previously. In recent times, healthcare professionals believe that usage of technology-based platforms plays a significant role in improving patient care and enhancing the chance to meet healthcare needs accurately. Fig. 4 underlines the worldwide survey performed in 2020 reflect about 25% of the healthcare professionals believe that Digital Health Records (DHR) has the potential to improve patient care. In addition to this, 22% of respondents mentioned that integration of AI improves patient care followed by 20% who mentioned that AI improves the operational efficiency of healthcare [13].
Figure 4: significance of technologies in healthcare professionals
In terms of nursing management, there are different types of advanced databases, which are being utilised by the nursing students and healthcare professionals to upgrade their knowledge and skills accurately.
CINAHL
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature or CINAHL is considered as one of the most effective and efficient electronic indexes for the nursing journal. This database includes all the nursing-related information, publications, and journals through which nursing students and healthcare professionals can improve their knowledge and skills [14].
Cochrane
This database is found to be associated with three primary database systems such as “Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews”, “Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effect” and “Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials”. This database system offers a wide range of opportunities for nursing professionals to obtain clinical information that they require to provide healthcare services [15].
PsycArticles and PsycInfo
These databases have also been utilised by the nursing students to improve their performance and knowledge to gain success in the field of nursing. Nursing students can access a wide range of clinical care knowledge along with understanding different evidence-based practices by gaining accurate information from these databases and enhancing their chances of accomplishing professional goals [16].
NHS Evidence
NHS Evidence is associated with a wide range of resources including summarisation of clinical knowledge, NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) guidelines, information of Public Health, and others [17].
It is unidentified that nursing professionals or nursing students are found to utilise any of the identified database systems according to their professional needs. Nurses are at the forefront in terms of providing proactive healthcare services by determining the medical condition accurately. In most of the cases, it is identified that due to lack of ability or knowledge about the nursing practices, nursing professionals fail to provide appropriate services that in turn negatively affect upon overall healthcare services facilities [18]. In this regard, having access to any of the suitable advanced databases where nursing professionals can obtain all their required and relevant clinical information improves their skills and healthcare understanding. This, in turn, they are able to interact with their portraits accurately by entering their health needs.
In the context of healthcare management including nursing management, the database is found to be important as it helps to allocate the required to accomplish each of the required healthcare services in an appropriate and systematic manner. In addition to this, management of healthcare organisations can share a wide range of relevant information with their subordinates and nursing staff that positively influence overall services and healthcare practices. In recent times, the advanced SQL is found to be utilised to improve the operational efficiency of nursing management and healthcare operations. The justification behind stating this is going to be highlighted in the next adjacent section briefly.
Types of Advanced Databases Used in Healthcare Delivery and Nursing Practices
SQL is referred to as Structured Query Language, which is found to be a programming language utilised to establish a connection with the databases. For example, it is identified that incorporation of SQL enables the users to interact with the specific database system and provides authority to manipulate the existing columns and rows within the database. SQL is found to be one of the most efficient and flexible quarry languages that enhance the chance for performing accurate data analysis practice [19]. In the context of healthcare organisations that utilise database, systems can bring opportunities and add value to their respective data analysis system with the help of SQL. The key reason behind this statement is that SQL is mainly utilised for considering all kinds of tasks or activities while processing patents and developing clinical databases. Starting from creating charts and summaries to analyse data, SQL enables users to develop their ability to work with all sets of activities in systematic and accurate manner while executing data analysis practice in healthcare.
It is identified that the concept of MySQL and SQL is completely different from each other. The reason behind stating this is MySQL is an RDBMS (relational database management system), while SQL is found to be, a language utilised to manipulate and query data within an SQL-based database system [20].
In the context of healthcare, SQL is found to be primarily used to export or import records from a specific and specialised patients database or medical equipment into APIs (application programming interfaces) without involvement of manual approach. It is identified that SQL has become one of the vital database aspects for many healthcare organisations as it helps healthcare professionals to obtain valuable and required insight from a wide range of data sets.
For example, there are different types of advanced emerging databases from SolarWinds such as Server & Application Monitor (SAM), Database Performance Monitor (DPM), and Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) respectively [21]. Each of the mentioned database management tools serves as beneficial for healthcare organisations to monitor overall healthcare service performance accurately. In addition to this, these database tools provide opportunities to the users to share required and relevant information quickly and appropriately within the healthcare platforms and systems in accordance to which optimal decisions can be undertaken.
On the other hand, it is identified that with the growing dependencies on technology-based solutions and medical equipment, the rate of cyber security risk has been increased. It is identified that the healthcare sector across the globe is most vulnerable to the cybersecurity risk. The medical equipment and technology-based database platforms that are being utilised in the healthcare sector are found to be targeted by cybercriminals to launch cyberattacks to the trusted network. It is identified that the rate of cyber-attacks across the healthcare sector has increased dramatically over the past few years. Fig.5 underlines that during the financial year 2018, the healthcare sector across the globe has witnessed 76% of cyber attacks. In this regard, it becomes essential for healthcare organisations to incorporate strong cybersecurity measures to prevent their databases from being hacked [22].
Applications of SQL and Advanced Databases in Nursing Management and Healthcare
Figure 5: Cyberattack growth
It is identified that Azure SQL Database is found to be a widely utilised advanced database system to manage, store and utilise confidential data in a secured manner. Considering the security strategy as highlighted in Fig.6 highlights, that cloud-based Azure SQL database helps businesses to store and manage all their respective data such as confidential business data, customer data, clinical information, and others through appropriate network security [23].
Figure 6: Security strategy
The usability and flexibility of Azure SQL Database help to manage all the essential information in a synchronous manner. In the context of nursing management, the mentioned advanced SQL can serve as beneficial to store all the clinical information securely and only the nursing professional can only access that data after gaining access authority. In this regard, it can also be mentioned that adoption of advanced SQL improves the business performance without engaging manual activities [24]. Other than this, it is identified that Azure Healthcare APIs manage different types of protected information securely and enable users to maintain secret transmission of health data within the global infrastructure. NHS, CDC, Adaptive, Humana, and others are found to be the key examples of healthcare organisations that have incorporated Azure SQL Database to improve their organisational performance by managing nursing practices.
Conclusion
In relation to the above discussion, every business entity operating across the healthcare industry is trying to manage their nursing practices by upgrading the skills and knowledge of their employees or healthcare professionals. With the advent of technologies and advanced databases, it becomes easier for healthcare organisations to store all the relevant clinical and health-related information securely and synchronously through which nursing professionals can upgrade their abilities. On the other hand, it has been identified that different types of nursing advanced databases such as CINAHL, NHS Evidence, Cochrane, and others are found to be utilised by the nursing students to gain access to a wide range of required and relevant nursing related information accurately. This, in turn, enhances their chance to accomplish their professional goals by upgrading their skills and knowledge in this rapidly changing environment. Other than this, it has also been identified that advanced SQL databases are being utilised for nursing management in order to store the relevant clinical information securely on the database and protect data from any kind of cyber security risks.
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Information Flow in Nursing Practices Through Technologies
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