Post a description of your current area of nursing practice. Then, describe how

Post a description of your current area of nursing practice. Then, describe how databases are used in your nursing practice, including a description of who maintains those databases. Explain how databases may facilitate and support your practice. Be specific and provide examples. Then, explain how you might meaningfully interpret data for better decision-making. Your role as a nurse necessitates frequent interaction with technology. On a regular basis you find yourself utilizing any number of sophisticated devices to support the provision of patient care. Ultimately, these devices are merely tools that support, but do not replace, decision-making. But by acquiring and maintaining them, healthcare organizations ensure that nurses and other healthcare professionals can improve how they make the assessments and diagnoses necessary to provide quality effective care. Despite the abundance of data available, data also remains merely a tool. By collecting and organizing data—transforming data to wisdom—healthcare organizations create a toolset that provides healthcare practitioners powerful resources that they can utilize to meet patient care needs. Like any tool, databases require some level of comfort to use appropriately. In your healthcare setting, you may find that some individuals are primarily end users, while others have more responsibility for managing data, inputting data, generating reports based on that data, or even managing the database systems. For this Discussion, you reflect on the impact of databases on your nursing practice. You then consider how you might apply data to improve decision making. APA Format Cite 3 references