Answer to Question 1
C
HIPAA was enacted to safeguard medical information. Some previously accepted methods for the organization of patient information have now fallen under what is considered to be HIPAA violations (such as the use of the whiteboard listed above), as they provide a means for others to access private medical information about individual patient care. Examples of HIPAA violations include: the use of whiteboards to organize shift assignments and nursing organizational charts (used to organize patient treatments, diagnoses, etc.).
Answer to Question 2
C
Administrative law deals with the protection of the rights of citizens. An example of this type of law is the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits forms of discrimination in the workplace. Civil law deals with how people relate to each other in everyday matters. It encompasses both tort law and contract law. HIPAA is a type of federal administrative law and is concerned with the protection of medical information.
Sharing patient information with colleagues is an important nursing role
nursing process
The five overlapping phases of the nursing process. Each phase depends on the accuracy of the other
Milk Label Containing Information about the Use of rBGH
Pharmacology Connections to Nursing