Week 6: Select one ethical, legal, reimbursement, or accreditation
issue to discuss that has implications for your practice as an INS
and address how you would best handle them in practice.
Answer:
While an informatics nurse specialist (INS) is responsible for managing and
communicating data, information, and knowledge in the nursing practice by combining
nursing science, information science, and computer science, they also face challenges in
dealing with ethical, legal, reimbursement, and accreditation issues. The most common
ethical/legal issue that impacts the practice of an INS is failing to protect private patient
information when accessing patient information via EMR system, leading to HIPAA
violation. HIPAA forbids the disclosure of any protected health information to a third party
issue to discuss that has implications for your practice as an INS
and address how you would best handle them in practice.
Answer:
While an informatics nurse specialist (INS) is responsible for managing and
communicating data, information, and knowledge in the nursing practice by combining
nursing science, information science, and computer science, they also face challenges in
dealing with ethical, legal, reimbursement, and accreditation issues. The most common
ethical/legal issue that impacts the practice of an INS is failing to protect private patient
information when accessing patient information via EMR system, leading to HIPAA
violation. HIPAA forbids the disclosure of any protected health information to a third party
