DNP-805 Week 4 Assignment EHR Database and Data Management

Max Points: 120
Details:

As a DNP-prepared nurse, you may be called upon to assist in the design of a clinical database for your organization. This assignment requires you to integrate a clinical problem with data technologies to better understand the components as well as how those components can lead to better clinical outcomes.

General Guidelines:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

• This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
• Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center.
• This assignment requires that at least two additional scholarly research sources related to this topic, and at least one in-text citation from each source be included.
• You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

Directions:

For this assignment, write a 1,000-1,250 word paper in which you:

1. Select a clinically-based patient problem in which using a database management approach provides clear benefit potential.
2. Identify the data needed to manage this patient problem using information from the electronic health record (EHR).
3. Include a brief description of the patient problem which incorporates information needed to manage the specific problem.
4. Identifies whether the EHR-supplied data is structured or unstructured with an explanation as to why.
5. Provide a complete description of the structured and unstructured data from the EHR that are needed to organize a hypothetical database.
6. Provide a complete description of data relationships that apply to the hypothetical database.