Description
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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Role of information in protecting patient’s healthcare
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The role of information management nursing practice
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Running head: HEALTH INFORMATICS
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Role of the nurse in protecting patients’ health information
Patient health information is the demographic information, which includes diagnosis
information, name of the patient, social number, medical records, phone numbers, financial
information, facial photos, physical address, and so on. It is the information that is used to
identify a client or patient information. According to Masters (2018), the patients' health
information should remain confidential and is protected by the federal government. The nurses
are always obligated to maintain and confidentiality of the patients' health information unless
they are instructed by the law to do otherwise.
As a nurse, an individual role to protect the patients' information is as follows. First, the
nurse should be extra careful while handling the documents possessing the patients' health
information. Although the organization heavily utilizes electronic health information, it relies on
paper files. The nurse should carefully handle and keep the docum...