The era of big data has arrived, and with the booming development of big data technology and applications, the quantity and value of big data are climbing rapidly. In addition to the rich value contained in the data resources themselves, metadata resources can create even greater economic and social value by mining and analyzing. Big data will accelerate the penetration of new technologies from the Internet to a wider range of areas, comprehensive radiation to all walks of life, nursing is no exception!
Providing better care for patients first requires nursing managers to better understand big data. Multiple clinical departments in hospitals, finance departments, and complaint systems have complex information technology systems, and integrating and analyzing and utilizing them is the challenge of big data. Getting the right information at the right time to support clinical decision-making and provide timely and accurate care for patients is essential. The application of big data technologies can help nurses and other healthcare workers to improve the quality of services, improve patient outcomes, and reduce healthcare costs.
So how can nurses utilize big data? Regardless of the type of healthcare setting, nurses making the best clinical decisions depend on correct, real-time data information, and that data must be presented in a standardized and structured way that can be ****enjoyed and compared. Currently, inconsistent approaches to data standardization and disparate nursing terminology remain key barriers to nursing information and digital ****enjoyment. Interactivity across systems is limited, resulting in a lack of compatibility and comparability of nursing big data. To guide the nursing discipline in better accessing and utilizing big data, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Big Data Principles Working Group recommends the following.
1. Nurses should promote the use of standardized nursing terminology in the nursing record in all healthcare settings. Healthcare providers should develop a plan to gradually transition to the use of Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms, a national standard recommended by the American Nurses Association.
2. Nurses should recommend and adhere to the use of research-based assessment scales and tools that have achieved international ****recognition.
3. The American Nurses Association recognizes that nursing terminology should be continually updated and maintain compatibility with standard terminology from international agencies.
4. Healthcare organizations should value and develop nursing information specialists who can provide valuable ideas in the conception, design, implementation, and optimization of health information technology in support of evidence-based nursing practice, education, and research.
5. To achieve the desired outcomes, care information specialists should have formal training, education, and credentialing in care informatics.
Understanding the principles of big data and the impediments, opportunities, and challenges it faces can help us to obtain shareable and comparable big data in nursing, which can assist nursing practice, education, and research for nursing professionals in all specialty areas. Nurses must develop an awareness of big data as an opportunity*** to work together to advance the discipline of nursing.