Development and Application of the Nursing Process Database based on the Object-oriented Database Model

Abstract

This study developed a nursing process database based on the object-oriented database model for the development of the nursing process computerization program. Received (September 15, 2015), Review Result(Octorber 02, 2015) Accepted(October 22, 2015), Published(December 31, 2015) 41156 Dept. of Medical Informatics, Kyungpook National Univ., 680, Gukchaebosang-ro, Jung-gu, Daegu, Korea email: phs510@naver.com 41156 Dept. of Medical Informatics, Kyungpook National Univ., 680, Gukchaebosang-ro, Jung-gu, Daegu, Korea email: medinfo@knu.ac.kr 27136 Dept. of Nursing, Semyung Univ., 65, Semyeong-ro, Jecheon-si, Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea email: ag392@naver.com (Corresponding Author) 38610 Faculty of Medical Industry Convergence, Daegu Haany Univ., 1, Hanuidae-ro, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea email: pulala@dhu.ac.kr Development and application of the nursing process database based on the object-oriented database model Copyright c 2015 HSST 168 The database coded the data of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) 2015-2017, Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) 5th edition and Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) 6th edition, and it produced the appropriate entities based on the class diagram to design data structure in an object-oriented perspective. The nursing process database is composed of classification systems, patient information and nursing process, user information entities, and it has the separate structure that all of the information is dependent on user and patient information entity. That is, the database developed can integrate and develop the computerized program without a separate process by resetting only the relationship between the core entities. In order to take advantage of these object-oriented database model, this study developed a part of the nursing process education program by using the Java programming language, Java Swing, JDBC Connector. The further studies are scheduled to develop the complete program which includes standard protocol transfer function for the standardization of nursing practice, the interoperability between other information systems, and the nursing process macro function.