Final project

Brendel, R. W., Wei, M. H., Schouten, R., & Edersheim, J. G. (2010). HIPAA regulation, Mental distress Malpractice, Negligent infliction. An approach to selected legal issues: confidentiality, mandatory reporting, abuse and neglect, informed consent, capacity decisions, boundary issues, and malpractice claims. Medical Clinics of North America, 94(6), 1229-1240.

This source provides relevant information regarding malpractice in the healthcare profession. More so, an emphasis has been provided about HIPAA regulation. Similar cases have also been cited, with works of other researchers used to compare the works of the authors in this article. At the same time, HIPA regulation has been categorically analyzed, to ensure that the reader gets a broader scope of what regulations are available in the field. The source is a relevant one in my field of study, as it gives detailed information on related topics.

Atwell, B. L. (2015). Rethinking the Childhood-Adult Divide: Meeting, the Mental Health,

Needs of Emerging Adults. Alb. LJ Sci. & Tech., 25, 1.

Abuse of medications which are used to treat primary diseases has been highlighted. At the same time, emerging trends in mental care have been discussed in this article. The law that specifically protects mental health patients has also been highlighted. This source is a relevant source, considering that the author’s work is correlated with those of others in the same field. At the same time, the source provides a lot of insight on the lack of mental health parity, as well as medical malpractice standard of care.

Ben-Shahar, O., & Porat, A. (2016). Personalizing Negligence Law. New York University Law

Review.

An essential feature of the law governing negligence is the standard relating to the ‘reasonable person.' This fundamental concept explicitly bases the law of negligence on the foundation of objectivity rather than overreliance on subjectivity. Individual according to the author, are required to behave in the most prudent way. This is a credible source, considering that it explains the details manner in which the ordinary and typical member of the community observes the clinical field, as well as aspects relating to the justice considerations of neglected parties.

Geber, S., Petersen, T., & Steele, E. (2016, August). Is it time for an HIPAA for physicians? In

Healthcare. Elsevier.

Physicians have for quite a long period, stomached the blame for not being able to handle mentally ill patients in the most efficient manner. At the same time, the need to increase basic care and operational effectiveness among health practitioners has been considerably discussed. The source provides credible information about physician care, the law that governs physicians and more so, emphasizes the need for consequence implementation for all practitioners who do not abide by the HIPAA Laws.

Cannon, A. A., & Caldwell, H. (2016). HIPAA violations among nursing students: the Teachable

moment or terminal mistake-A case study. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 6(12), p41.

The article is presented in the form of a case study, which involves one nursing education program experience, with HIPAA. The violation of HIPAA is significantly used to show how nursing students are prone to making mistakes while handling patients in the absence of the professionals. This article is relevant to the study, considering that it serves as an example of how vulnerability and lack of professionalism can lead to medical malpractice and patient negligence.