A Research Study On Health Care Management - 1240 Words

Health care management ensures that expertise professionals are serving clients to address issues that are arising. The manager’s role is to certify things are running smoothly in a health care organization. I decided to interview a nurse practitioner because that has always been my dream occupation, but I realized looking into the psychiatric part. I interviewed a licensed psychiatric nurse practitioner who works at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, Ca. According to the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (2016), â€Å"Autonomously and in collaboration with health care professionals and other individuals, NPs provide a full range of primary, acute and specialty health care services, including: Ordering, performing and†¦show more content†¦What I learned prior to this interview through research was that medical records play a big role in a medical facility. There are chart rooms dedicated to these medical charts because they contain private conf idential information regarding adults. HIPAA stand for the health insurance portability and accountability act of 1996. HIPAA electronic medical records have to strictly follow guidelines that have procedures in disclosing patient health information. Psychotherapy notes do not include: â€Å"medication prescription and monitoring, counseling session start and stop times, modalities and frequencies of treatment, results of clinical tests, and any summary of diagnosis, functional status, treatment plans, symptoms, prognosis or progress† (Holloway 2003). Also, the patient has to give consent in allowing the medical records to be provided to other medical providers to view. For the psychotherapy notes, â€Å"You do not have the right to access a provider’s psychotherapy notes. Psychotherapy notes are notes that a mental health professional takes during a conversation with a patient. They are kept separate from the patient’s medical and billing records. HIPAA also d oes not allow the provider to make most disclosures about psychotherapy notes about you without your authorization† (Office of Civil Rights 2012). Since I started school off as a nursing major at San Jose State University and have volunteered at many medical facilities, I