Select a defined patient population; for example, diabetic patients over 65 years of age. List elements that you think will be valuable in a database. Describe each element and explain each term of its type of data (text, numbers, date, time, binary, etc.). If an element can be more than one type of data, explain how that is possible. Be sure to post an element different from that of your peers. REPLY TO DISCUSSION

Select a defined patient population; for example, diabetic patients over 65 years of age. List elements that you think will be valuable in a database. Describe each element and explain each term of its type of data (text, numbers, date, time, binary, etc.). If an element can be more than one type of data, explain how that is possible. Be sure to post an element different from that of your peers. REPLY TO DISCUSSION

Databases are a type of information collection that is related to and linked to the things that are being evaluated. In the twenty-first century, they have become an essential component of our daily lives, whether logical or physical. There are databases for various fields, and the information collected varies according to the field. This information could be gathered in a variety of formats, such as spreadsheets, files, indexes, and tables (Alexander, Hoy, & Frith, 2019). Understanding how databases work in terms of structure, design, management, application, and data storage is required for database implementation.

Databases are used in healthcare to store massive amounts of data such as demographics, diagnoses, treatment plans, patient care plans, medications, and care progressions, as well as to respond to complex inquiries. These databases are simple to recover data from and are rapidly improved and updated for faster access, allowing HCP to easily exchange information (Alexander, Hoy, & Frith, 2019).

The patient population chosen for this database is heart failure. Heart failure is a syndrome characterized by increased heart pressures or decreased cardiac output when the heart’s systolic and diastolic functions fail, resulting in symptoms such as constant shortness of breath, Bilat lower extremity edema, fatigue, and the possibility of needing to use oxygen continuously (Knc, & Gürdoan, 2022).

Some of the elements needed for chronic heart failure will be demographics which will include the age-number, gender-text, vital

DNP 805 Topic 4 DQ 1 Select a defined patient population; for example, diabetic patients over 65 years of age

signs-numeric, intake and output-numeric, weight gain or loss-numeric, medications-text, frequency of shortness of breath-text and numeric, time of day-time, when short of breath occurs most-text and numeric (Newman, 2019).

The frequency of sob could be text because you are noting that there is frequency of sob and then also noting how many times it occurs. Likewise, when the shortness of breath occurs most can be text as well as at what time it occurs most often.

References:

Alexander, S., Hoy, H., & Frith, K. (2019). Applied clinical informatics for nurses (2nd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.