Emotional Abuse In Nursing Home
Emotional abuse is reportedly the top form of abuse documented by the residents in nursing homes according to study done by the Journal of Adult Protection. In their study, there were more than five patients that had reported being emotionally abused by their caregivers (Goergen 131). Keep in mind that this number may seem small but this is one nursing home we are talking about. If every nursing home did this study, thousands of residents could be affected getting the same treatment every day. Surveillance cameras and recording devices are the two main types of technology that can be implemented into nursing homes to reduce this problem. For example, if every worker that has contact with a resident was wearing a body camera or a recording device,
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A mandated healthcare policy was created to protect the confidentiality of the residents, patients, and worker’s personal information. The use of surveillance cameras, recording devices, or any other type of technology would break the rights and regulations of the recent updates of the Ombudsman Act of 2004 and HIPPA (Brinkhus). With these updates, the patients right to self-privacy must be conserved and technology would break all of the rights that have been set in stone for the time being. The federal government fund of Medicare also, will not fund facilities for this type of expense without sufficient research. Medicare mainly funds the use of healthcare for each patient whom needs assistance. There is a set budget for what needs to be incorporated for set cap amount of money allotted. The use of technology would be an expense that would be indeed very expensive but it is truly needed. The government is able to fund police departments with enough money for them to use body cameras, so why should hospitals or a nursing home not have the opportunity to do so? The world is evolving every day, OBRA and HIPPA regulations needs to put this into great consideration because if not, then they may fall behind with the current technology trends. Without the implementation of technology, more and more nurses will get away with unfortunate act of nursing home neglect and abuse. If the use of technology cannot be achieved, the approach to fixing this problem may be out of our reach. There is one more strategy we can implement to maybe stop the problem of nursing home neglect and abuse. The addition of randomized drug tests within a facility can be used to asses this situation
A mandated healthcare policy was created to protect the confidentiality of the residents, patients, and worker’s personal information. The use of surveillance cameras, recording devices, or any other type of technology would break the rights and regulations of the recent updates of the Ombudsman Act of 2004 and HIPPA (Brinkhus). With these updates, the patients right to self-privacy must be conserved and technology would break all of the rights that have been set in stone for the time being. The federal government fund of Medicare also, will not fund facilities for this type of expense without sufficient research. Medicare mainly funds the use of healthcare for each patient whom needs assistance. There is a set budget for what needs to be incorporated for set cap amount of money allotted. The use of technology would be an expense that would be indeed very expensive but it is truly needed. The government is able to fund police departments with enough money for them to use body cameras, so why should hospitals or a nursing home not have the opportunity to do so? The world is evolving every day, OBRA and HIPPA regulations needs to put this into great consideration because if not, then they may fall behind with the current technology trends. Without the implementation of technology, more and more nurses will get away with unfortunate act of nursing home neglect and abuse. If the use of technology cannot be achieved, the approach to fixing this problem may be out of our reach. There is one more strategy we can implement to maybe stop the problem of nursing home neglect and abuse. The addition of randomized drug tests within a facility can be used to asses this situation