Patient Privacy Destiny Hill HCS 335 October 2‚ 2011 Patient Privacy The law protecting patients’ rights and privacy known as Health Insurance Probability and Accountability (HIPPA) was enacted and signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996. HIPPA is created to help protect patients’ medical records and personal health records nationwide in addition to keeping all medical information confidential. Documents are filed and stored‚ but with technology evolving documents
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Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals‚ families‚ and communities so they may attain‚ maintain‚ or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care‚ training‚ and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care within the ordering
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mobility r/t muscle weakness and disease process self care deficit: dressing and grooming r/t cognitive impairment chronic confusion r/t impaired decision making ineffective coping r/t impaired information processing noncompliance with nursing staff r/t behavior problem due to mental decline impaired verbal communication r/t aphasia-speech deficit risk for falls r/t muscle weakness risk for impaired skin integrity r/t bedridden/chairbound - History of Trauma - Time‚ cause
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Patient confidentiality In a television episode of ER which aired on NBC in 2000‚ Carol Hathaway became aware of risky sexual behaviors that had led to a 14 year old girl having a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and cervical cancer. Prior to finding this information out‚ Carol Hathaway had promised the patient that she would not tell anyone about whatever the patient discussed with her. But upon realizing the high risk of the girl’s behavior‚ Carol Hathaway came to find herself in a dilemma of
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Increasing Patient Reporting as a Collaborative Effort Increasing Effective Patient Reporting as a Collaborative Effort Introduction: In order to increase effective reporting‚ communication is evident as a collaborative effort between the interdisciplinary team by rounding. Delegation is also a commutative effort by nursing‚ physicians and auxiliary staff. Both processes are very important to enhance patient safety and improve patient outcomes. Both
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excellent nursing care (Srivastava‚ 2007). However‚ health care provider’s roles and responsibilities in meeting health care needs of the clients in consideration to cultural perspective and diversity are getting more challenging and complicated due to increased number of people from a group of multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society‚ which‚ in turn requires health care providers to acknowledge and understand variations of cultural healthcare beliefs‚ values and practices. Transcultural nursing is essential
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intend to heal. Patients are confined to
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barriers. Patient Advocacy According to Hanks (2010)‚ nurses define advocacy as “intervening on behalf of a patient within a system‚ resulting in nurses’ actions of speaking‚ fighting and standing up for patients” (pg.98). Nickitas‚ Maddaugh and Aries (2016)‚ expanded on this definition by including language related to ethical nursing practices
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Nursing staffing can affect the nursing profession by a range of external factors such as nursing shortage‚ changing patient needs and expectations‚ decrease patient safety‚ and increased the economic inflation and a lack of internal revenue to the States. As a great disadvantage‚ the nurse-to-patient staffing ratios point to research indicating an association between nurse workload and patient mortality and morbidity. The model of the synergy model in the policy change of nurse-to-patient ratio
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Patient Teaching HLST 320 Caroline C December 31st‚ 2007 Introduction: I have chosen breastfeeding as my teaching topic for this assignment. The specific clientèle will be the new mother at between 2 and 7 days postpartum‚ newly discharged from hospital. As a community health nurse working with children and young families‚ I do initial postpartum visits at home. Breastfeeding is a very complex skill‚ natural‚ yet sometimes difficult
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