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Total Assessment Submission Length: 4-6 pages total submitted through an Agenda, Memo, and two email templates.

Professional Skills: Written Communication, Information Literacy, Inquiry and Analysis and Technology are assessed in this Competency

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In this assessment, you will create four different types of communication to ensure the protection of patient data and privacy: a meeting agenda, a staff memo, and two emails. Each of these will be in response to a short scenario. Read each scenario and first identify the issue that is being addressed related to patient privacy and confidentiality. Then, prepare a response using the specified method (agenda, memo, or email) that includes the following:

Strategies for maintaining privacy of patient health information, and electronic health records, including the importance of safeguarding electronic health records (EHR)
Identify technology resources that may be used to protect patient confidentiality and privacy
Explain a nurse’s ethical duty when it comes to maintaining confidentiality of private patient information, and list possible implications of not maintaining patient confidentiality and privacy
Explain the role of HIPAA in governing electronic health information and provide HIPAA guidelines for permitted use and disclosure of protected patient health information
Evaluate the potential privacy, security, and confidentiality risks involved with using personal smartphones when providing nursing care
List HIPAA guidelines that should be followed and possible technology used to help protect patient confidentiality and privacy