Nursing Care: Impact of Technology, HIPAA Standards, and Patient’s Privacy

We Can, But Dare We?
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We Can, But Dare We?
Introduction
Nursing seems to be a boundless path of professionals involving serving, nurturing, and healing people who need care. They can either be patients or their families, though the most significant priority is patient care and safety. Besides, the nursing practice as a career comes with responsibilities as bestowed in the American Nurses Association (ANA) directives. The regulations in the nursing career might effectively operate when all nurses are well-informed about them and how they regulate the practice. As a medical profession, it is guided by a code of ethics that obligates a nurse to accept to follow before establishing a clinical procedure strictly. For instance, a nurse is expected to partake in a medical process while creating, upholding, and enhancing the health care atmosphere to offer excellent medical care consistent with the stated values of the profession.
In a scenario whereby a nurse goes against the nursing code of ethics, such a case might be treated as an act of negligence. As much as nurses attempt to evade moral defilements, they still happen. Breaches in ethical principles of care—contingent on the episode—may have substantial consequences for nurses. Somehow, a failure of a technology usually deployed in the medical practice may put a nurse in a good situation, and ethical violation can intrude. Nevertheless still, such an act is viewed as negligence. Besides, the privacy of patient information holds a firm ground in the medical profession, and it requires immense compliance and respect. Thus, in this review, the discussion shall involve HIPAA, legal and ethical issues, the contribution and effects of technology, and privacy issues in healthcare.
Impact of technology on nursing care
For several years, technological developments have changed the remedial landscape. The time for scrupulous charting and manual feeding of information is presently declining. Besides, the renovations in information tech, alongside new tools, have upgraded the excellence of care for patients and have similarly favored the healthcare professionals. For instance, the incorporation of information technology has helped in improving healthcare accessibility. Electronic health records have changed the medical care information tech space. Tech advances have also lessened human mistakes. Nurses working for extended periods or facing understaffing of their units are at increased peril of demonstrating faulty results.
Consequently, new tech developments may reduce the probability of causing human mistakes when deployed. Likewise, advancements in technology can assist positively in solving the concerns like a nursing personnel shortage. The health care department has constantly encountered medical personnel shortages; hence, the nurses occasionally get exhausted and may want to abandon their practices environment. Correspondingly, the developing technologies in telehealth have provided hope in mitigating the burden on nurses; the new tech presently enables nurses to reach places that face health specialist shortages since it is effective in remote monitoring (L...