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Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are health records kept in a provider’s clinic, a pharmacy and in hospitals. The benefits of EMR’s include improving coordination of care and It is also meant to be safer when it comes to breaches. The ethical framework of EMRs is utilitarianism, which encourages the most good for the most people. Since Doctors, pharmacies and other health care providers have access to it, they can save lives by seeing possible drug interactions and other medical concerns. The problem here is that the safety of EMR’s is not 100%. There can be leaked information and can cause chaos. I believe that nurses see the ethical concerns related to nursing informatics because of the way that information circulates in the systems. For example, in 2003 a hospital theft of computers with patient data brought on a public panic upon realizing that up to four million patients with data in their Advocate System may have had their data compromised. Although, it was hard for them to get into the system because of security codes this is an example of possible concerns associated with informatics (Amer, 2015).
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please reply to this post and ask one question regarding this post: Nursing informatics is a specialty that supports nursing through the integration of information science, computer science, nursing science to provide data communication management (Darvish et al., 2014). With technology advancing most hospitals have incorporated electronic health records, as this eases documentation and transfer of information between healthcare staff it can also present an issue with keeping the patient’s privacy. The ANA’s Code of Ethics for nurses states the...
please reply to this post and ask one question regarding this post: Nurses are faced with a number of ethical dilemmas every day. There will be many cases in which a nurse will have to refer to nursing code of ethic to deal with these challenging decisions. "The Code of Ethics is the social contract that nurses have which exemplifies our profession's promise to provide and advocate for safe, quality care for all patients” (ANA, 2001). As nurses we must...
please reply to this post and ask one question regarding this post: The use of health information technology has had an impact in the nursing world. With the way communication and accuracy of patient information is being circulated, it has saved lives. One of the ways that health information technology has changed nursing practice is through documentation. There is no such thing as written notes for patients medical records. Today, nurses are more likely to input notes into electronic health...
please reply to this post and ask one question regarding this post: As mentioned, the 2010 healthcare reform act increased the number of people with care access; thus reducing the number of people who cannot access health care. Regardless, there is still huge number that requires care but cannot access due to financial constraints (Martsolf et al., 2016). As a professional nurse, there a various ways that I can manage reaching out to community members who do not have access...
Data sharing is a growing problem in the Health Informatics field with the implementation of Electronic Health Records (EHR) as well as other forms of electronic repositories. With concerns about security breaches of public medical records growing, many patients, clinicians, and doctors worry that precious private data may be hacked and used for devious purposes. This hesitation limits the capability that providers of medical care can distribute to their patients, an underlying problem in high medical expenses. Due to a...
please reply to this post and ask one question regarding this post: “According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, To Err Is Human,4 the majority of medical errors result from faulty systems and processes, not individuals”(Hughes, 2008).Because errors are caused by some fault in the system it is important to implement several methods to identify inadequacies in the care patients receive as well as ways to prevent future errors from occurring. Many hospitals develop and implement important protocols to...
please reply to this post and ask one question regarding this post: I believe nurses as lobbyists are essential to the growth of nursing as a profession. Nurses who lobby and push for political change in healthcare do it to advocate for their patients, change in practice issues, and to advocate for the nursing profession. Nursing is the number one trusted profession; they perform direct patient care and can offer a point of view that others in politics cannot. In...
please reply to this post & ask one question regarding this post: I believe that membership and participation in a local/national professional nursing organization have huge benefits in lifelong learning. “Professional nursing organizations are an effective means by which the nursing profession can influence healthcare policy, represent and protect the interests of nurses, provide continuing education opportunities for nurses, and advocate for the highest quality care possible to the public” (Halstead, 2016, p.108). Nursing organizations further the development of nursing...
please reply to this post and ask one question regarding this post: The difference between values and beliefs is that beliefs are convictions that we believe to be true, without proof or evidence. An example of this would be religion. Beliefs often arise from learned experiences, resulting from the cultural and environmental situations we have faced (Davis, 2019). So often times our actions are based on our beliefs due something we have experienced in the past . Values are based...
please reply to this post and ask one question regarding this post: Lobbying is essential to the growth of the nursing profession. As nursing professionals, it is our responsibility to be involved in advocating for patient safety, standards of care, and healthy work environments (Lockhart, 2017). Nurses can participate in local or state organizations to help voice concerns of engaged professionals. A nurse can assume a leadership position in the healthcare system or contact elected officials. Collectively, nurses have the...