The inclusion of Nurses in the System Development Life Cycle
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The System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) involves creating a model of a project and managing it from inception to successful completion. The aim of the SDLC is to ensure that all the procurements and commitments made by the stakeholders, for this case nurses are stakeholders, are followed to the latter for a successful ending. SDLC is a process followed for a software project, within a software organization. It consists of a detailed plan describing how to develop, maintain, replace and alter or enhance specific software (Bondi, 2016)
Involving the nurses in the SDLC is vital and highly advantageous. Nurses are the only physicians close to patients most of their times, even from childbirth we understand the morphology of a newly born child and the state of the mother. For the example of the newly born children, we recommend the specifications of their bed rest materials from day one to the point of going home with the mother. The main difference is that the highly structured “heavyweight” methodology used by the shuttle designers is predictable, while the flexible “lightweight” methodology used to develop cutting-edge software solutions is not (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2021). For emergency cases such as road accidents, nurses recommend how the structure of the emergency first aid points should be organized starting from the critical situations to mild ones. In these times of Covid-19, nurses should be engaged to ensure that the ventilators obtained can serve many patients at a time and the concentration of oxygen in those chambers.
Not involving nurses can indeed make SDLC fail by not securing good quality equipment (Wang, Gephart, Mallow, & Bakken, 2019). For example, suppose the management secures a bed of low quality which might end up breaking down when a patient is still on the bed, that’s a failure. Either it can secure medicines that are not recommended for certain persons with different immunities. The waterfall model illustrates the software development process in a linear sequential flow (Jagli & Yeddu, 2017). In conclusion, engaging nurses in the SDLC is of great importance and impact in the development of a given health facility. In software development, I recommend the spermatogenesis stages in the software be developed keenly to ensure that they capture any slight mutation of infection for that matter.
REFERENCES
Bondi, A. B. (2016). Incorporating software performance engineering methods and practices into the software development life cycle. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering (pp. 327-330).
McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. (2021). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
Jagli, D., & Yeddu, S. (2017). CloudSDLC: Cloud Software Development Life Cycle. International Journal of Computer Applications, 168(8), 6-10.
Wang, J., Gephart, S. M., Mallow, J., & Bakken, S. (2019). Models of collaboration and dissemination for nursing informatics innovations in the 21st century. Nursing outlook, 67(4), 419-432.