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please respond to the following discussion posts as a peer making a comment. Nursing is a delicate profession which can attract law suits if care is not properly delivered and risk the practicing license. Complete and accurate medical recordkeeping and documentation can ensure that patients get the right care at the right time. When a nurse work the entire shift without documentation, it literally mean that, nothing was being done because, ”what is not written is not done”. Good documentation is important to protect the provider, avoiding liability and keep out of fraud and abuse of trouble, (US Department of Health & Human Sciences, 2022). Complete and accurate documentation has proven to key when a patient family members trying to sue the hospital with accusations of negligence after they realized that, there family member admitted in the hospital has a pressure ulcer on the sacral. However, this pressure ulcer was from home and the nurse has documented presence of the ulcer on the day of admission. The ulcer was documented its location, size and condition. The family members eventually noticed that the negligence was from home not from the hospital and they were forced to stop proceeding with their lawsuit.
Every state and territory in the US set laws to govern the practice of nursing. These laws are defined in the Nursing Practice Act (NPA). The NPA is then interpreted into regulations by each state and territorial board of nursing within the authority to regulate the practice of nursing care and the power to enforce laws, (Huynh AP, Haddad LM,2020). The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 provides HHS with the authority to establish programs to improve health care quality, safety, and efficiency through promotion of health IT, including electronic health records and private and secure electronic health information exchange (The Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology,2019).
References.
Huynh AP, HADDAD LM (2020). Nursing Practice Act
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559012/
The Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (2019). Laws, Regulation and Policy
https://www.healthit.gov/topic/laws-regulation-and-policy
US Department of Health and Human Sciences (2022). Importance of Documentation.
https://oig.hhs.gov/newsroom/podcast/2011/heat/heat09-trans.asp