Category: Accountability

  • Patient Healthcare: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

    Introduction The healthcare system is concerned with the duties of providing the people with treatment, prevention measures, and overall management of health. This is ensured through professional service providers like nurses and physicians. These services require adequate financing and must be performed based on already set policies and standards that govern the healthcare system. However,…

  • Professionalism and Accountability in the Nursing

    The delivery of nursing care and service is essentially guided by principles of nursing professionalism. An essential role in the nursing profession relates to the autonomous practices that relate to self-direction in nursing care with emphasis on a system of professional functioning. Nurses need to imbibe leadership skills in view of the nature of their…

  • Accountability Within a Medical Organization

    Nursing practice has always been associated with making various decisions within a limited period of time. The recent demographic shifts have led to a shortage of nursing staff, which results in nurses work overload and a high turnover rate. Nurses overwhelmed with numerous tasks, long working hours, and numerous consecutive shifts tend to make mistakes…

  • Social Media and Accountability in Organizations

    The powers of social media have developed gradually over the last decade. Consequently, social media can provide an organization with a platform to form connections with its old and new contacts including customers and supporters. In an online article that appears on the Tech Talk website, Tod Newcombe explores how transit authorities use social media…

  • The Concept of Accountability in Healthcare

    Introduction The Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced the concept of accountability to increase the value of patients in the healthcare system. The most important goal is to reach their distinctive features, which enable value-based results driven by leveraging physicians and hospitals to work collaboratively to deliver quality patient care (Lewis et al., 2019). The reward…

  • Accountability Act in Electronic Medical Records Use

    Caris post is especially valuable for understanding the intricacies of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) implementation. The discussion clearly explains how HIPAA impacts the social workers use of Electronic Medical Records (EMR), outlining the concerns related to patient data accessibility. Indeed, when performing their work responsibilities and interacting with personal information, social…

  • Accountability in the Healthcare Industry

    Accountability entails measures and procedures that are taken to ensure justification and assumption of responsibilities for various actions in an organization. In other words, it means that an individual is ready to assume responsibility as a result of any negative impacts or due to errors of commission or omissions with regard the activities and task…

  • American Nurse Today: Accountability and Ownership

    Table of Contents Assigned Article Summary Impact of Assigned Article Content on Future Practice Conclusion Reference Promoting professional accountability and ownership among nurses is one of the primary challenges of the modern healthcare system. These two concepts constitute an internally driven professional mindset that prompts health workers to take responsibility for their actions. The objective…

  • Promoting Accountability in American Nurses

    Table of Contents Assigned Article Summary Impact of Assigned Article Content on Future Practice Conclusion Reference The topic of the assigned reading revolves around how nursing leaders can improve care by upholding the concepts of professional accountability and ownership in their practice. This paper summarizes the assigned article. Also, it explains how the publication will…

  • Nursing Accountability and Ownership Promotion

    Table of Contents Assigned Article Summary Impact of Assigned Article Content on Future Practice Conclusion Reference Professional accountability is a critical aspect of the nursing field, serving as a driving factor for improving patient outcomes. This paper will summarize and analyze an article by Sherman and Cohn (2019) on nursing accountability. The information taken from…