NR361 Week 7 Discussion: Quality and Safety in Healthcare Informatics

CLASS:

NR361 – RN Information Systems in Healthcare

Discussion: Quality and Safety in Healthcare Informatics

Step 1: Watch the Patient Safety Movement video..

Step 2: Answer the discussion prompts below with explanation and detail.

Paragraph one: Discuss one quality and safety issue you observed while watching the video and explain the impact of this issue.

Paragraph two: Discuss how the role of technology helped or hindered the quality and safety issue you identified.

Paragraph three: Discuss one information and communication technology policy that should be enacted to prevent the selected quality and safety issue.

References: Provide complete references for all citations.

SOLUTION

Paragraph one:

The nurse colleague using his personal cell phone to take a photo of a patient’s wound and sending a text message with a photo to the primary care provider would be a breach of HIPAA. Legally, the patient never gave their consent that this way okay for the nurse to do. Therefore, the nurse didn’t comply with HIPPA regulations by sharing the patients’ health information via text message with the primary care provider. Legally and ethically this is wrong. Hebda et al. (2019) states, “In a healthcare environment,…………………….purchase at $5