Microsoft Access in Nursing Education

Paper Summary:

The author relates his goals of gaining knowledge regarding Microsoft Access (MSA) and experimenting with basic functions of the application. The author details his experimentation and its successful outcome. The author is of the opinion that MSA provides the functionality that nursing in general and nursing education needs. The author further contends that nursing should provide its ranks with the time and training to implement programs such as MSA to their fullest potential. The paper includes the data used in the experiment as appendices to the paper.

Outline:
Introduction
Tutorial Experience
Dataset Discussion
Process Discussion
Analysis of Application
Literature References
Conclusions

From the Paper:

"In selecting Microsoft Access (MSA) for this assignment, the author's goal was to be introduced to this application for the first time to and learn some of its basic features. The author's plan was to gain knowledge regarding MSA and to practice the basic functions of this application. This task was accomplished by selecting an available dataset from a nursing educational setting. No overall question was selected to solve using MSA. However, in experimentation, several underlying questions regarding the data were addressed while exploring MSA's application in the nursing education setting. MSA can be used in various areas of nursing. Since the author is unsure at this time what area of practice will be chosen, the flexibility and power of the application is ideal and can be explored."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Anderson, V. (2003). How to do everything with Microsoft Access 2003. Emeryville, CA: McGraw-Hill/Osborne.
• HIMSS Nursing Informatics Awareness Task Force. (2006). An emerging giant: Nursing informatics [Electronic version]. Nursing Management, 38(3), 38-42.
• Kelly, M. (2006). An innovative approach to educating nurse informaticians [Electronic version]. Journal of the New York State Nurses Association, 37(1), 12-15.
• Meadows, G. (2002). Information systems & technology: Nursing informatics: An evolving specialty [Electronic version]. Nursing Economic$, 20(6), 300-301.
• Simpson, A., Young, M. L., & Barrows, A. (2003). Access 2003 all-in-one desk reference for dummies. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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