Nursing Scope and Role

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Your answer must be 3 paragraphs in length for each question and more than one references. As usual you must post at least two other students post with a reference that justfies your response. Please answer the following questions.

1. What is your role as a nurse in protecting patient healthcare information?

2. Describe the role of information management nursing practice.

3. Research what types of technologies and service such as free internet exist in South Florida for underserved populations .Describe what they are and how does the underserved population gain access to them.

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Question 1
As a nurse in my line of work I get in contact with several patients and as I attend to them
I may come in possession of their private information either at my nursing station, the patient’s
bed site, examination room or even in the operation room. This information is very important to
the patient and times it may be digitized or on paper but it requires proper storage for future
reference of the patients' health history or records.
As a professional nurse, I am obligated to be in charge of the patient’s records. which are
private and confidential. Therefore as a nurse, I should be keen and be first in line to safeguard
the information of the patient (Sahi, 2018). As a nurse, I should, therefore, be responsible and in
charge of collecting the patient’s data in a professional way that safeguards and ensure that this
data is only used for the intended purpose only. Therefore this makes a nurse the custodian of the
patient’s data from the time of collecting, handling during the use of the data and finally records
keeping in a way that protects the patients’ health information.
As a nurse, I use various ways to ensure that the patient’s data is safeguar...


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