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Under the Final Paper tab in this classroom, determine which case you will be researching for your Final Paper. Provide a description of the case you will be researching. Then, find at least six scholarly sources that are connected with the ethical dilemma and/or case-related content that you will be using to complete your Final Paper. Provide an annotated bibliography of these six (or more) sources.
Your annotated bibliography must contain the following elements (and possibly more):
- APA-formatted citations
- A description of the article:
- What does it address?
- What were the outcomes or conclusions?
- How does this apply to your case study analysis?
- Does it provide insights into an ethical concept?
- Is it a similar case to the one you are analyzing?
- Does it offer suggestions from best practices in ethical decision making?
Your paper should be at least two pages in length, excluding title and reference pages, and formatted according to APA style
Scenario No. 1: HIPAA Privacy Rule
Case Study: Imagine that you are the privacy officer for a small town hospital. You receive a report that there is a breach of privacy. You are informed that a 15-year-old girl is received at the emergency with an emergency labor. The baby is delivered in the emergency room as there is no time to move the patient to the obstetrics (OB) department. In addition to the emergency delivery, the baby is born with multiple medical problems. Once the mother and baby are moved to obstetrics and neonate, care is given to both.
The OB nurse who took care of the mother and baby completes her shift, and she goes home to her own daughter to have a talk with her. She sits her daughter down and pleads with the girl to tell her if she ever has any problems, especially when it comes to pregnancy. The nurse tells her daughter the story about the young patient who delivered that evening, and she accidentally mentions the patient’s name. The patient’s name is one of those odd names that immediately triggers the nurse’s daughter to relay that she knows the patient. The mother/nurse, realizing that she made a big mistake by mentioning the patient’s name, pleads with her daughter not to say anything. Needless to say, word shoots through the four high schools in the town the next day.
The nurse returns to work the following evening, and she contacts you to hand in her badge and keys, stating that she knows she made a mistake by breaching the young patient’s privacy and she knows she is going to be fired. In addition to the breach of the obstetrics nurse, you learn that the patient hid her pregnancy from her family, and to make matters worse, her aunt and mother are both nurses at the hospital. You know both of these nurses on a professional and personal level.
Scenario No. 1 HIPAA Privacy Rule Project Assignment:
Research the HIPAA Privacy Rule here:
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2002). Standards for privacy of individually identifiable health information; Final Rule. Federal
Explanation & Answer
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Running Head: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Annotated Bibliography
Name
Institutional Affiliation
Date
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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Introduction
The case scenario that I chose was “HIPAA Privacy Rule which is scenario number one.
The case explains how an ethical dilemma was formed after confidential information about a
patient was shared, maybe unknowingly, by a nurse. After realizing the mistake that she had
made, she tried to resign by issuing me her badge to turn it in. Some relatives of the patient
worked in the same hospital and did not know about the situation. I know the relatives on a
professional and personal level. This creates an ethical dilemma with many sides and issues to
consider before making the final decision.
HHS,. 2016. "Privacy Rule Introduction". HHS.Gov, 2016, http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/forprofessionals/privacy/guidance/introduction/index.html.
This article by U.S Department of Health and Human Services explains and answers most
of the important elements of the requirements of HIPAA Standards for Privacy of Individually
Identifiable Health Information. It is also known as the privacy rule. The article addressed my
question on ethics on the privacy of patient information. ...
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