HEALTH SCIENCE AND NURSING.
Introduction.
Nurses spend most of the time with patients and their health history information. As a nurse, I have to review records of patients, their health histories, and engage in therapy by administering the drugs. I should ensure confidentiality and privacy to patients’ information. The role of information management is to help the nurses to analyze and to maintain patient data. The report also gives guidelines to various patients’ medical services procedures.
As a nurse, I will observe privacy and security in the workplace to ensure that patients’ information is protected from unauthorized personnel. For instance, the computers that are used to store the patients’ information should have a password, and also, the recording room should strictly close to ensure confidentiality and privacy. Also, I should be compliant with the rules and regulations of health insurance portability and accountability act. I should understand ways of protecting the health information, time to share, whom to share with, and how. The nurse has to know how to implement sensible safeguards to reduce cases of disclosures. Also, the patient information should the private, and there should be well-monitored disposal of the information in adherence to privacy policies in the workplace.
Healthcare information management professionals play an essential role in collecting, analyzing, storing, retrieving, and maintaining data. Nurses use the information in disease diagnosis and coding. Also, the report provides medical services procedures that should be done to the patients. Besides, the underserved population is exposed to the use of technologies such as mobile phones that they use in sending and receiving messages. They are also exposed to the internet that helps them access health information from the doctors. The use of the internet and cell phone helps the underserved population of Florida to receive alert messages from the doctor sharing the diagnosis results.
In conclusion, nurses should observe the confidentiality and privacy policies of the patients’ information by adhering to the rule and regulation of health insurance portability and accountability act. Also, the use of technologies such as cell phones and the internet helps provide alert information from the doctors, thus increasing the healthy lifestyle of the underserved population.