Administrative Ethics April Lail HCS/335 July 14, 2013 Katherine Rossiter Administrative Ethics HIPPA is a federal act imposed to set standards for protecting the privacy of patients’ health information (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. n.d.). HIPPA privacy rule addresses issues to patient access rights, rules for use and disclosure, new administrative requirements, and means for enforcement and compliance. This rule affects virtually every person such as a health care
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communicable, and recorded data which is collected in a systematic and continuous manner. (3) Plan care which includes goals and prioritized nursing approaches or measures derived from the nursing diagnosis. (4) Implement strategies to provide for patient/client participation in health promotion, maintenance, and restoration. (5) Initiate nursing actions to assist the patient/client to maximize his or her health capabilities. (6) Evaluate with the patient/client the status of goal achievement as a basis
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The Board of Nursing is a government agency responsible for regulating nursing practice, creating laws, administering licensure exam and issuing licenses, and overseeing and ensuring the safe practice of nursing. Its ultimate goal is to protect the health, safety and welfare of public receiving nursing services (NCSBN, 2015). The New York State Board of Nursing is administered under the Office of Profession of the state, located in Albany, NY. It defines four distinct nursing professions in New York
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gathered of the said population and describe the general impact that the changing demographics may have on the health care market. Why and how will the changes in the aging population affect healthcare. In addition, identify two key health care related challenges for the aging population such as increase in health care costs, increases in prescription drugs costs, or the need for in home medical care. How a chronic disease wellness program may affect the cost of the aging population. What can the demographics
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JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY WORD COUNT 3846 Introduction The aim of this assignment is to consider whether mental health patients have autonomy or do staff and the healthcare environment merely allow them a measurable quantity of autonomy based on legal, ethical and moral restrictions, if this is the case, is this autonomy at all? Placement experiences will be given in relation to patient autonomy and related ethical, legal and professional issues will be supported and/ or contrasted by relevant
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Health Care Ethics Paper University of Phoenix HCS 435 Health Care Ethics In our society, health care professionals are bombarded with ethical issues in health care which we must firmly know the difference between right and wrong. However, in health care, there are many circumstances which health care professionals do not always make the correct ethical decisions. Theses ethical decisions affect society and the next generation to come. Therefore, the Patient Self-Determination Act is
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both addicted to drugs is unable to care for their infant daughter. She is taken from them by court order and placed in a foster home. The years pass. She comes to regard her foster parents as her real parents. They love her as they would their own daughter. When the child is 9 years old, the natural parents, rehabilitated from drugs, begin court action to regain custody. The case is decided in their favor. The child is returned to them, against her will. Do ethics support the law in this case? Discuss
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Ethics Case Study Everyday health care workers around the world are faced with tough decisions. The law guides many decisions but some decisions require ethical considerations. Making good ethical decisions is not always as easy as it seems. Making ethical decisions is even harder when the primary intention is to be helpful, but it is beyond an employee’s qualifications. Jerry’s Qualifications versus Necessary Qualifications Qualification as a medical assistant and a licensed practical
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The Discipline of Nursing Professional Boundaries As professionals in health care, the nurses’ aim is to have a therapeutic relationship with the patient, where boundaries of the relationship are strictly safe and within the code of ethics. Such boundaries are called professional boundaries that are defined as the ‘spaces between the nurse’s power and the client’s vulnerability’. Establishing these boundaries provide the nurse with authority to allow a confidential and professional therapeutic relationship
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Week 9 Final Project Ethics Program Report Patton Fuller Community Hospital Ethics Program Report Within Patton Fuller Community Hospital (PFCH) it has been brought to my attention there are moral and ethical issues we are facing. These issues are; * Unauthorized disclosure of patient information * Data security breach * Medication doses error Since the hospital main focus is the patients as it is states in their mission statement, that they cares about the patients and not the
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