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Reflect on your development as a nursing professional and address the following in a 1-2 page paper:
1. Describe how you achieved each of the course competencies.
2. Provide at least one example of new knowledge gained related to each competency and explain how this new knowledge will im...

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Purpose of Assignment: It is important for nurses to reflect on experiences and new knowledge gained in order to promote professional growth.

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Evaluate responses of communicable diseases in healthcare today. Debate current healthcare policy as it relates to nursing practice. Critique ethical issues in current nursing practice. Analyze cultural and social issues in the contemporary, professional nursing environment. Evaluate the use of information technology and patient data analyses in the current healthcare delivery system. Analyze current issues in healthcare.

Instructions: Reflect on your development as a nursing professional and address the following in a 12 page paper: 1. Describe how you achieved each of the course competencies. 2. Provide at least one example of new knowledge gained related to each competency and explain how this new knowledge will impact your nursing practice.

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Presenting on Contemporary Issues in Nursing

Rasmussen University NUR3894 Section 04 Contemporary Issues in Nursing Renee Glesner 12/12/2021

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Presenting on Contemporary Issues in Nursing One contemporary issue in healthcare today One of the contemporary issues in healthcare today is on confidentiality of the information and data of patients in the healthcare facility. Patients and other staff mostly give out their personal and professional knowledge in the healthcare facility as required. Confidentiality may refer to the principle and practice of keeping confidential and professional information private unless the report owner gives permission or there is the necessity of providing the information (Cheng et al., 2019, June). This issue is common today where nurses and other healthcare providers have been seen to dispose of other peoples' exceptionally patient information to others without consent. How Breach of confidentiality impacts nursing practice. The issue is common and may harm the nurses in practice and the facility. Breach of confidentiality can be seen as an illegal act performed. Therefore, those who breach it, mainly the nurses, maybe sued and need to pay compensation to the owners of the information (Seh et al., 2020, June). The act also ruins the healthcare facility's reputation. Patients would not seek services from facilities attributed to breaching the confidentiality of patients' information and other people in the healthcare facility. How healthcare responds to this issue Healthcare tries to respond to this issue somehow as one of the goals is to ensure patients' safety. It also takes an obligation to prevent harm and minimize the damage that could be caused as a breach of confidentiality may cause damage to the owners of the information involved in the issue, who are mostly the patients. It comes up with methods of restricting access to information and making it possible only for authorized persons to access information. It also tries to

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encourage the relevant staff to the patient's information to discuss it in private if it is information, for example, how to treat a patient. These acts may reduce the issue of breach of confidentiality. Analyze how cultural, social, or ethical issues impact Breach of confidentiality Confidentiality is well exercised in some cultures where it is unethical to talk about other peoples' behavior, acts, or other things that impact them without their permission. This may positively impact a nurse or healthcare provider who may come from such a culture, and cases of breach of confidentiality may not be familiar or experienced often with them. Breaching the confidentiality of information of any person is an unethical act as it may cause harm to them, damage their reputation, lose their confidence, etc. An ethical staff may not primarily be involved in the issue. The effects of personal values/beliefs/assumptions on a nurse's approach to the issue. The values, beliefs, and assumptions tend to shape a nurse's approach to confidentiality issues. A nurse with excellent and desirable values, ideas, and assumptions would ensure the confidentiality of information of any person in a healthcare facility. Their values would tell them that it is unethical to breach confidentiality, and if they have to do so, it is essential to consult the owner of the information. The nurse will also attempt to influence others to ensure confidentiality as they will be aware of the negative impacts of the breach of privacy. Proposal of the policy statement that supports how breach of confidentiality can be approached in nursing. The policy will focus on ensuring the quality of healthcare to patients. This will require a highly disciplined staff to meet all the needs needed, especially when dealing with patients and other staff information for the issue of confidentiality. The policy may include the punishment for the

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parties who breach confidentiality. It may also entail guidelines on handling people's private information in the healthcare facility.

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Cheng, R., Zhang, F., Kos, J., He, W., Hynes, N., Johnson, N., & Song, D. (2019, June). Ekiden: A platform for confidentiality-preserving, trustworthy, and performant intelligent contracts. In 2019 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) (pp. 185-200). IEEE. Seh, A. H., Zarour, M., Alenezi, M., Sarkar, A. K., Agrawal, A., Kumar, R., & Ahmad Khan, R. (2020, June). Healthcare data breaches: Insights and implications. In Healthcare (Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 133). Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute....