Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

or female just make the report. Victims do have a right have right during the criminal investigations to participate in the proceedings of a full investigation. But that right is being torn away from them. Isn 't that what the Crime Victims’ Rights Acts is about?If the Law says that a Crime victims have the right to a proper investigations then it should not matter if you are an inmate, male, female or child, a victim is a victim. Many victims in a sex abuse case are being deprived of these…

The provision 3 states that “the nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and the safety of the patient” (American Nurses Association, 2015, p. 9). This provision addresses patients’ right to privacy, confidentiality, and protection of participants in research. It stresses the importance of the informed consent and states…

Gun control has been an issue for years now and with recent events, it’s time for a change. Guns are a major problem in our society. Lately, there has been school and mass shootings like the Umpqua Community College shooting in Roseburg, Oregon and the mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. The issue with gun control will be that some people think there should be better gun control laws, like myself, and there are people who feel as if theirit shouldn’t be a gun control law because we as…

Charles Sabatino, JD, explains to his audience in the article Overview of Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Care, “The law has a lot to say about personal decision making. For example, people have the legal right to make their own health care decisions. However, poor health can jeopardize people’s ability to exercise their legal rights. Sudden or chronic illness can cause profound weakness and confusion, which makes people vulnerable…

Drug testing has become known as an essential part of gaining employment. There are some places of business that require drug testing, and there are few who do not require drug testing. It makes the most sense that the fields getting drug tested would involve public safety. Fields involved in public safety can include, but is not limited to: police officers, firefighters, emergency paramedics, and emergency dispatchers. This may also include doctors, nurses, nurses’ assistants, and the majority…

Child mistreatment is a problem prominent in our society today. Child maltreatment is reported in the United States over 17,000 each day. There are lasting impressions on children and adolescents that are exposed to this type of violence. Child mistreatment is a broad term and will be used to encompass a broad area including neglect, physical abuse, and sexual abuse. First, child maltreatment will be defined as a social problem. Second, common risk factors of child maltreatment will be discussed…

in nursing has provided a safer mechanism for health care providers to document in a much faster and accurate way. In 2004, President George W. Bush set a goal that the majority health data be in an electronic format by 2014, which included medical records that are shared by many institutions and other technologies for safer health care (As cited by Spencer, 2012). I will discuss the importance of health informatics, health information, and health information technology and how this…

If you know the English language, then you should be familiar with a subset of language which covertly masks offensive or blunt terms. Some people aware of this phenomenon speculate that it is a cover-up for the challenges that reality harnesses, such as global warming or one’s honest thoughts. Whereas, others suspect that this usage helps the community achieve certain duties. Although both standpoints on the matter are typically correct in some ways, the use of euphemisms has done both harm and…

Acute care hospitalization has long been recognized as the most costly health care option. National health care reforms include efforts to reduce acute hospitalization and, once admitted, to shorten patients' lengths of stay. 7. Emphasis on Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)* Patients, payers, and other medical professionals are more frequently questioning the research supporting various interventions. SLPs, like other professionals, must ensure the provision of services supported by the best…

When people think of the words social media, their first thoughts are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or other social networking cites, but social media is much more than that. “Social media is a generalized term for a group of online software tools that allow for increased interaction, authorship and development of online content by any web user. Social media, which includes tools such as wikis, blogs, podcasting, social networking and social bookmarking, represents a shift from the Internet as…