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The inclusion of a database system in the workplace induces efficiency, in that it allows management and nurses to monitor daily tasks accomplished and services given to patients, not to mention enabling every member to be informed of the right conduct of services given within the medical institution / organization. Stakeholders and constituents would also become more informed about the medical institution's daily operations, helping them provide useful and constructive inputs for the continued improvement and development of healthcare servicing in the institution/organization (122).
Apart from increased efficiency and improvement of healthcare servicing in medical institutions, an efficient database systems or informatics in the workplace would have a significant role to the organization and introduction of new nursing data/information and knowledge. Because nursing is a profession dependent primarily on the skills and experience of nurses as medical professionals, nurses are not able to involve themselves actively in the field of research of nursing science, leading to the lack of information on nursing as it relates to the development of healthcare and medical servicing.
The introduction of a database system, then, would automatically quantify patient cases that can become potential data or information that nurses could use for their research on specific...
The ease of collecting data/information about nursing and its application in the medical field is an important advantage that an efficient database system can provide to healthcare professionals like nurses. Another potential that nursing informatics can provide for nurses is the determination of "nursing problems, interventions, and outcomes in a standardized format to be stored in administrative and clinical data repositories" (Swan, 2004:330). With these efficiencies in terms of storing and retrieving data and patient cases both for research and administrative uses, informatics or the establishment of a database system in the medical workplace will help pave the way for the improvement of quality nursing care and healthcare service, not to mention the improvement in nurses' skills and knowledge in the field of nursing science and research.
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Young, D. (2002). "CMS starts nursing-home quality-performance reporting project." American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, Vol. 59, Issue 2.
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