Watch at least 2 episodes of any television situation comedy. After watching the programs, identify any minority characters, and write a two page single spaced paper (1 inch margins and 12 point font) describing how any one of these minority characters were portrayed. Detail if the portrayal was accurate or stereotypical and whether the character’s minority status alone was used as a source of humor. 

IT should be 2 pages single spaced******

Please follow the instructions*****

Scenario 1: social media posting

      Every time a patient visits any medical facility, they always expect quality care and confidentiality.  With increased and advanced technology, many people are capable of accessing patient’s information, making it difficult for healthcare workers to fully secure patients’ confidentiality. in the first place, healthcare personnel is supposed to ensure that the information that they share on their social media platforms no sensitive information is shared through these platforms because they are not secure. The information provided should not jeopardize the security and privacy of the patients. a nurse must first consider whether the information provided can lead to the patient’s identity being revealed and what the consequences are.

     This nurse has gone against the HIPAA rule. According to HIPAA, the patient’s demographic such as their past, present, or future, and health care they have received, should be protected (Cannon, & Caldwell, 2016). In this case, the nurse has revealed the patient data such as their weight and diagnosis, which can lead to the identification of the patient. Today, It is easier to access patient’s information due to the high technological advancement. Therefore, the healthcare providers are supposed to be very careful with the kind of information shared on the online platforms because once it is shared, they may have little or no control of who will access the information provided. this worker does not show any professionalism that is required by a health worker. Spreading the patient’s information on online platforms is illegal, and it is a violation of patient’s rights. Every time a patient visits any medical facility, they always expect quality care and confidentiality

 Scenario 2: presentation poster

     Privacy is the patient’s right to personal information protection.  Confidentiality is very critical in ensuring that the third party does not access the patient’s information. All healthcare professionals are bound by these rules that prohibit them from discussing a patient’s medical information with anybody else without consent. The patient’s information should also be stored in a way that guarantees the patient’s privacy. In this case, the nurse should use the pictures but de-identify all the data that can lead to the patient being identified by the third party.

     De-identification is removing identifiers from the health information that can help identify the patient, thus mitigating risks. De-identification also helps the healthcare workers to use the patient to support research without going against the set rules and regulations (Sokol, 2017). The HIPAA rules are critical in that it provides directions regarding re-identifying the PHI using a unique code. This code is very important and thus is not to be disclosed. In this case, the patient can use the client’s lesion for education purposes but ensure that there is no data that can lead to the identification of the patient by the third party. HIPAA provisions allow using information that does not identify the patient

Scenario 3: long term care

     There are various privacy and security issues that are related to a patient sharing their information with a long-term care facility. One of the major issues is the patient controlling the information that they provide to the healthcare workers. Therefore, there is a great concern regarding who should be controlling the access and the sharing of information in the long-term care facility. The patient information is critical, and the control issue should be appreciated with the owner’s approval. The patients are therefore supposed to control the information that they provide. In this case, Marcus is not sure who he should provide his information with. The patient may therefore hide some of the information because he is not sure who he should be providing the information with and the security of the provided information.

     There is also the other issue of trust between the patient and the healthcare provider. In order to have a successful healthcare system, trust between the patient and the healthcare providers is paramount. The absence of trust may make the patient fail to disclose the necessary information required to help better the patient’s outcome. Failure to disclose some information may lead to adverse effects. 

      There is also the likelihood of gaps in the legislative aspects of the privacy and security-related institutions that help safeguard the patient’s information. These gaps arise because of a lack of proper policies and lack of knowledge. This may lead to unauthorized persons accessing the patients’ information.

References

Cannon, A. A., & Caldwell, H. (2016). HIPAA violations among nursing students: teachable moment or terminal mistake—a case study. J Nurs Educ Pract, 6(12), 41-48. Retrieved from; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hollie_Caldwell/publication/305479324_HIPAA_violations_among_nursing_students_Teachable_moment_or_terminal_mistake-A_case_study/links/579787a108aec89db7b9a86b.pdf (Links to an external site.)

Sokol, A. J. (2017). Clinical Research and Data: HIPAA, the Common Rule, the General Data Protection Regulation, and Data Repositories. Merrill Series on The Research Mission of Public Universities, 47-62. Retrieved from: https://journals.ku.edu/merrill/article/view/7750/7359 (Links to an external site.)

As a professional nurse, you are expected to apply your expertise to patient care. On occasion, you will also be expected to share that expertise.

With evolving technology and continuous changes to regulations designed to keep up these changes, there is usually a need to share information and expertise to inform colleagues, leadership, patients, and other stakeholders.

In this Assignment, you will study a recent nursing informatics-related healthcare policy, and you will share the relevant details via a fact sheet designed to inform and educate.

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources on healthcare policy and regulatory/legislative topics related to health and nursing informatics.
• Consider the role of the nurse informaticist in relation to a healthcare organization’s compliance with various policies and regulations, such as the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).
• Research and select one health or nursing informatics policy (within the past 5 years) or regulation for further study.

The Assignment: (1 page not including the title and reference page)

Create a 1-page fact sheet that your healthcare organization could hypothetically use to explain the health or nursing informatics policy/regulation you selected. Your fact sheet should address the following:

• Briefly and generally explain the policy or regulation you selected.
• Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on system implementation.
• Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on clinical care, patient/provider interactions, and workflow.
• Highlight organizational policies and procedures that are/will be in place at your healthcare organization to address the policy or regulation you selected. Be specific.
• Use APA format and include a title page, in-text citations, and reference page.
• Use the Safe Assign Drafts to check your match percentage before submitting your work.

1) Minimum 6 full pages (No word count per page)- Follow the 3 x 3 rule: minimum three paragraphs per part.

            Part 1: Minimum 2 pages

            Part 2: minimum 2 pages

            Part 3: minimum 2 pages

            Part 4: minimum 2 pages

    Submit 1 document per part

2)¨******APA norms

          All paragraphs must be narrative and cited in the text- each paragraph

          Bulleted responses are not accepted

          Don’t write in the first person 

          Don’t copy and paste the questions.

          Answer the question objectively, do not make introductions to your answers, answer it when you start the paragraph

Submit 1 document per part

3)****************************** It will be verified by Turnitin (Identify the percentage of exact match of writing with any other resource on the internet and academic sources, including universities and data banks) 

********************************It will be verified by SafeAssign (Identify the percentage of similarity of writing with any other resource on the internet and academic sources, including universities and data banks)

4) Minimum 3 references per part not older than 5 years

All references must be consistent with the topic-purpose-focus of the parts. Different references are not allowed.

5) Identify your answer with the numbers, according to the question. Start your answer on the same line, not the next

Example:

Q 1. Nursing is XXXXX

Q 2. Health is XXXX

6) You must name the files according to the part you are answering: 

Example:

Part 1.doc 

Part 2.do

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Part 1:  Restructuring in depth

You are the supervisor at a home health agency. There are 22 RNs in your span of control. In a meeting today, John Dao, the CNO, tells you that your span of control needs adjustment to be effective. Therefore, the CNO has decided to flatten the organization an decentralize the department. To accomplish this, he plans to designate three of your staff as shift coordinators. These shift coordinators will schedule patient visits for all the staff on their shift and be accountable for the staff that they supervisor. The CNO believes that this restructuring will give you more time for implementing a continuous quality improvement program and promoting staff development.

Although you are glad to have the opportunity to begin these new projects, you are somewhat unclear about the role expectations of the new shift coordinators and how this will change your job description. In fact,you worry tha this is just a precursor to the elimination of your position. Will these shift coordinators report to you? If so, will you ave direct line authority or staff authority? Who should be responsible for evaluating the performance of he staff nurses now? Who will handle employee disciplinary problems? How involved should the shift coordinators be in strategic planning or determining next year’s budget? What types of management training will be needed by the shift coordinators to prepare for their new role? Are you the most appropriate person to train them?

There is a great potential for conflict here

1. Make a list of 10 questions that you would want to ask the CNO at your next meeting to clarify role expectations. 

2. Discuss tools and skills that you have learning that could make this role change less traumatic for all involved.

Part 2: Power, politics, and Collective Bargaining on Organizational Climate

List and support your reasons for or against striking.

You are a staff nurse in the ICU in one of your city’s two hospitals. You have worked at this hospital for 5 years and transferred to the ICU 2 years ago. You love nursing but are sometimes frustrated in your job due to a short supply of nurses, excessive overtime demands, and the stress of working with such critically ill patients.

The hospital has a closed shop, so union dues are deducted from your pay even though you are not actively involved in the union. The present union contract is up for renegotiation, and union and management have been unable to agree on many issues. When management made its last offer, the new contract was rejected by the nurses. Now that the old contract has expired, nurses are free to strike if they vote to do so. 

You had voted for accepting the management offer; you have two children to support, and it would be devastating to be without work for a long time. Last night, the nurses voted on whether to return to the bargaining table and try to renegotiate with management or to go out on strike. Again, you voted for no strike. You have just heard from your friend that the strike vote won. Now, you must decide if you are going to support your striking colleagues or cross the picket line and return to work tomorrow. Your friends are pressuring you to support their cause. You know that the union will provide some financial compensation during the strike but believe that it will not be adequate for you to support yourself and your children. Yo agree with union assertions that the organization has overworked and underpaid you and that it has been generally unresponsive to nursing needs. On the other hand, you believe that your first obligation is your children.

Using a problem-solving and decision making skills model 

1. How you would approach solving this difficult decision. 

2. Describe how you arrived at your decision. 

3. How many alternatives did you generate? 

4. If you were financially stable without a family would your decision have been the same?
 

Part 3: Power, politics, and Collective Bargaining on Organizational Climate

Purpose:

This week’s graded topic relates to the following Course Outcome (CO).

 Plan clinical practice activities that integrate professional nursing standards in accordance with the Nursing Code of Ethics and the American Nurses’ Association standards of practice (CO5).

The ethical guidelines provided by the American Nurses Association’s Code of Ethics can help nurses in the face of an ethical dilemma. The Code consists of nine provisions which outline  statements of the obligations of nurses, and the interpretative statements which provide more specific guidance in the application of the provisions to nursing practice.

1. Which of the provision(s) do you believe is (are) more important to your daily practice? Explain your answer.

2. How do you integrate the ANA Code of Ethics in your daily practice?

3. Have you been faced with a situation in which you had to make an ethical decision? How did you resolve the ethical issue?

4. What is the purpose of the Code of Ethics? 

5. Which of the provisions you believe is 

Part 4 : Due 24 hours

Case Study
The administration of the local critical access hospital has asked the practitioner to organize a community service program to conduct sports physicals for local junior high and high school athletes at no cost to the student. The practitioner has the use of the usual physician office space or the facility’s large meeting space and will recruit physicians, nurse practitioners, nursing staff, and medical technicians to conduct the sports physicals. Based on a survey of nearby school districts, the administration expects to serve 100 to 150 student athletes over the 2 days the physicals will be offered.

Case Questions

1. Which format would most effectively serve the needs of the students in this program? Include consideration of the space chosen for conducting the program.

2. Which space would be most appropriate to use for the program and why?

3. What are the drawbacks to the assembly-line format?

4. Which physical examination focus points could the nursing staff and medical technicians be assigned to complete?

5. When the practitioner is preparing to advertise the program being offered, the local newspaper asks the practitioner to identify three of the main objectives of the sports physicals for an article. How would the practitioner respond?

How has current policy transformed the current practice      of nurses, physicians, and other healthcare professionals?

• What distinction can you make between      physicians/healthcare providers working in a fee-for-service system and a      value-based care system?
• How do you view shared power between physicians and      nurses in your healthcare system? How does it impact care?