Nursing Home Scenerio

Read the following scenario:

If you are the administrator of a nursing home in your area, you may have recently learned that your company is being acquired by a larger corporation on a national scale. Many current residents will have to relocate as a result of forthcoming policy changes. Some of these locals have trouble talking, don’t have any close relatives nearby, and haven’t signed waivers allowing the release of their medical records, which only adds to the complexity of the problem. These people require special accommodations.

A 1,050- to 1,400-word paper discussing the various means of communicating with the healthcare organization depicted in the scenario is due. Nursing Home Scenerio

Ensure that your paper incorporates the following:
Health care communication: the pros and cons of the old guard, the new guard, and social media
How laws like HIPAA and others affect people’s ability to use these platforms to have confidential conversations about their health

Include at least two citations, one from the University Library and one from the required textbooks or Electronic Reserve Readings, to back up your claims. Nursing Home Scenerio

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

PREPARING FOR THE ASSGNMENT

Background

Healthcare is readily embracing any technology to improve patient outcomes, streamline operations, and lower costs, but we must also consider the impact of such technology on privacy and patient care. This technology includes the use of social media applications, such as Facebook, Instagram, MySpace, Twitter, and Linkedin on smartphones.

In healthcare today, smartphones are widely used for communication, efficiency, and care. Obviously, a variety of issues(ethical, professional, and legal) from both the personal and hospital perspectives must be consider. Nursing Home Scenerio

SCENERIO

You a nurse in the emergency room, working the Friday 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift, and your evening has been filled with the usual mix of drunken belligerent teens, wailing babies, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations, falls, fractures, and the routine, regular congestive heart failure (CHF) patients. Your best friend is texting you from the concert that you had to miss tonight because you were scheduled to work, and you respond to her between care of patients, jealous that she is there and you are not. “What a jerk to torture me like this!” You think to yourself. Nursing Home Scenerio

It is now 2 a.m., and the medic radio once again, notifying you of an incoming motor vehicle accident victim, ETA of 5 minutes. You sign and opt to use the restroom, rather than getting that much-needed cup of coffee, and prepare a room for your next patient. The medics roll in and begin to fill you in. The patient is a 28-year-old male, a passenger on a bus that was involved in a crash, leaving the vehicle the vehicle overturned after rolling over an embankment.

There were several fatalities among the bus passengers, and “this victim has remained unconscious, though his vitals are currently”… and as you start to focus on the patient, you take a second look. Cn it be? It is! The lead singer, Jerod, from the band “Blue Lizards,” who you have adored since you first heard his voice! The band had just left the concert that you had missed last evening when the accident occurred. Nursing Home Scenerio

You quickly text your best friend… “Can you believe?” and she responded with you “Yeah, right. PROVE IT.” So you quickly snap a picture with your smartphone, when alone with the patient, and send it to her. Can’t hurt, right? Celebrities are “public property,” and that’s a part of life, right? Just for good measure, you snap a few more pictures of the unconscious singer in various stages of undress and then a shot of his address, phone number, and demographic information from his electronic health record. Nursing Home Scenerio

You sit your phone down on the bedside table for a minute as you continue your assignment of the patient.

At 7:00 a.m., you drag your tired body home and straight to bed after a long but eventful night.

What happens next? Choose an ending to the scenario, and construct your paper based on those reflections:

1 You are the following nurse on the day shift and discover the night nurse’s phone on the bedside table. While trying to figure out to whom it belongs, you open the phone and see the photographs taken the night before. Holy moly! What a find, and nobody could trace you to the photos. Nursing Home Scenerio

2 You receive a call from the gossip paper the Gossip Gazette, offering you $20,000 for the photos you have taken (courtesy of your best friend). Your identity would never be revealed, and you desperately need a new car and behind on some bills.

3 You go on Facebook, on your day off, and talk about the night you had at work and how you didn’t really feel as bad having to miss the concert, because you actually got to meet Jerod in person and even “Got his number!” You then post a picture of Jerod on Facebook and Instagram, figuring that most of your contacts would never recognize him anyway. It’s your day off and your personal time, so no harm, no foul, right? Nursing Home Scenerio

4 You receive a message the next morning from a peer at work that there is a big investigation being conducted at work due to a HIPAA violation and that it involved a celebrity who had been admitted to the hospital. The word is that legal action is being taken against the hospital due to some photo that were sold to the Gossip Gazette. Knowing that the photo you sent is safe with your best friend, you reach for your smartphone, but it is nowhere to be found. Nursing Home Scenerio