Adoption of Electronic Health Records is a major topic of discussion for many healthcare organizations. Transitioning from paper to an electronic health system requires through planning, research and consideration. This paper will different components that had to be considered when transitioning from paperless to electronic health records. Salem Women’s Health...

Public health issue The public health issue chosen is smoking. The use of tobacco is still widespread in society, despite efforts to make it more expensive and difficult to purchase tobacco products. Extensive health documentation and public news information detail the massive health issues of smoking (The Heart Association, 2017),...

One element of the New York Code of Nurses which was new to me when I encountered it was the concept of abandonment and the legal and professional repercussions which are associated with it. According to the NYSED, abandonment is defined as a situation in which “the nurse-patient relationship is...

Obviously, abortion is always a personal, even intimate matter. It is also always a tough decision, made under unpleasant circumstances. However, induced abortion is not a rare occasion, whether legal or not, and on the scale of a country the phenomenon might become a public issue. Moreover, in developed countries...

On its surface, HIPAA and the concept of patient confidentiality and privacy seem rather straightforward. Protecting a patient’s confidentiality and privacy is a critical part of establishing and maintaining trust between a patient and a healthcare provider. Obviously, there is a need to share the patient’s information with critical individuals...