An Analysis Of The Complexity And Importance Of A “Clean” Database (Case Study Sample)

The Complexity and Importance of a “Clean” Database Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Data cleaning is the process of ensuring the correctness, consistency, and accuracy of data. Often, the data cleaning process involves identifying any error in the data and correcting the mistakes and consequently preventing them from happening again. This paper examines the complexity and importance of a “clean” database as well as one key component of teamwork. The article will stretch further to highlight concerns at Western States Hospital with regards to opportunity for improvements to its system and the importance of the PI team for the context. Data cleaning is the process of removing corrupt, incomplete, irrelevant and inaccurate records from a database CITATION Meg15 \l 1033 (Squire, 2015). However, the process of cleansing data is complex since it involves batch processing of inaccurate and irrelevant part of information through scripting, or performed interactively with data wrangling tools. Nonetheless, a “clean” database is vital in ensuring that the information of the client is updated and verified thereby allowing the company to reach the right people on valid email addresses as well as through the right telephone numbers. Further, customer information keeps on changing, and thus a “clean” database ensures that these changes are reflected in the database CITATION Meg15 \l 1033 (Squire, 2015). Teamwork is very vital to the organization. This is because it facilitates cohesion between the employees enabling them to collaboratively focus on the critical goals of the company CITATION Mic12 \l 1033 (West, 2012). Effective communication is one of the essential components of teamwork because it helps team leaders perform essential functions of management such as planning, organizing, coordinating and controlling and consequently enhancing the overall efficiency of the team CITATION Car121 \l 1033 (Carter, 2012). As a result, the productivity of the team improves. Additionally, effective communication keeps the foundation of motivation within the place of work and brings members of the team together irrespective of their cultural backgrounds and ideologies CITATION Mar15 \l 1033 (Hilton, 2015). This creates understanding among team members helping the team build healthy relationships and work together. Eventually, the team can benefit from synergy. Further, effective communication helps in building the attitude of members of the team thereby maintaining a positive work environment. As a result, this promotes mutual respect among team members beyond their day-to-day activities enabling them to develop unique qualities that make the entire team effective CITATION Car121 \l 1033 (Carter, 2012). Based on the case study, I believe there is a huge opportunity for change in the system of Western State Hospital. The admitting clerk is somewhat overwhelmed by the high number of patients they have to process, and thus cannot be able to admit every patient when needed effectively. As a result, there is a need for a system that can automatically record the arrival of every patient at the department, as well as when they leave. This will ensure accuracy and effectiveness within the health care since the admitting clerk will be able to record information of the patient accurately. Additionally, I believe a PI team is appropriate for the context to facilitate effective discharge of various duties and responsibilities within different departmental functions. A cross-functional PI team will play a significant role within the organization fixing the unfortunate situation at Western States Hospital. However, the only point of concern is that the PI team may take longer to study the case then give recommendations than the hospital can wait. Since the situation at the hospital demands immediate attention, there is a need for a short-term solution in the meantime to improve the condition immediately. Finally, the PI team should include the head of the nursing staff, manager of the admitting and patient accounting department and the admitting clerk. These persons will be significant to the PI team at Western States ...