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Scenario:
You are a community nurse responding to an epidemic, Bacterium Y, in your state. As the primary registered nurse investigator analyzing patient data to discover a trend and treatment options, you are tasked with collecting and analyzing real patient data daily. This epidemic has impacted all levels of the community including government officials, singers, actors, etc. While reviewing data, you stumble across a familiar name, which happens to be the name of one of your favorite actors, Chris Imprivata. Upon determining this, you happen to take a photo of the data and post about the finding on social media.
To complete this paper, please choose one of the 2 following outcomes or one listed in the attached RUA 3 We Can But Dare We rubric:
- Upon posting this, several media outlets reach out to you gain more information and a “quote” from you. They even offer a handsome $5,000 reward for your information.
- A day after posting on social media, you realize your mistake and delete your post. However, it was too late, and a lawsuit is filed against you for exposing the information
4 pages long
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Explanation & Answer
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Informatics in Health Care
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Informatics in Health Care
Technology is rapidly transforming the health sector from having robotic devices that help
perform surgeries to delivering drugs in the bloodstream (Wetter, 2016). Collection of data from
patients and record-keeping in the health sectors has also gotten eased by technology. However,
technology has got its drawbacks in health care. With the advancement in technology, human
value should be placed first in research and patient diagnosis. Health care informatics, just like
other fields, entails issues of appropriate and inappropriate behaviors and actions that are right
and wrong. Nurses and the health sector stakeholders play an essential role in promoting privacy
and exploring the challenges of their research and practices in the health sector. In nursing,
medicine, and human subject research, ethical questions have continued to emerge (Wetter,
2016). Most people believe that promoting confidence in the electronically preserved
information about the patient is the primary source of ethics that should be paid attention to.
Privacy and confidentiality are fundamental areas of concern in ethics; however, they are other
tools to be emphasized, like an appropriate use of the information collected from research. The
purpose of this assignment is to investigate the legal and ethical issues to put in mind when
collecting data to discover the trend of the Bacterium Y epidemic and its treatment option in my
state.
Being the primary registered nurse, I have been given the responsibility to collect and
analyze the patient's data daily since the epidemic has had a significant effect on all community
levels, from the government to the state's top people. Due to this epidemic's spread, they have
arisen a dilemma in handling this information that I collect daily, especially after realizing that
my favorite actor Chris Imprivata is one of...
