HIPAA Compliance Training of Nursing Services Staff
Curriculum Development - HIPAA
Educational need and rationale. The primary educational need of nurses at Heart of Lancaster Regional Medical Center is training in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The basis for identification of this need was the administration of semi-structured interviews and questionnaires with nursing services staff at Heart of Lancaster medical center. The results of the interviews and survey showed a clear lack of knowledge about HIPAA. In addition, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 contains provisions for medical records privacy for storage, transmission, and disclosure that link directly to HIPAA. Essentially, the two pieces of legislation create double jeopardy when any practices by medical personnel or medical institutions are not in compliance with HIPAA. Because of the potential for substantive fines for violation of either of The Acts, it is evident that an educational program on HIPAA should be undertaken with nursing services staff as soon as possible. The focus of the educational program is on prevention of violations of HIPAA.
Instructional design methods. The basic plan for the educational program the use of videos to provide HIPAA compliance information, followed by summative assessment. The videos selected for this training program may all be accessed online for free, and they portray a non-compliant error with regard to HIPAA regulations. A pilot test of the proposed instructional plan will be conducted with 100 employees. The pilot will provide important information about the effectiveness of the training, as participants will take a quiz following their training session, and will also make salient any weaknesses in questions structure or content, and highlight any areas of the training content that are problematic and indicate changes to make instruction more robust or focused. The goal of the training is to have every participating member of the nursing staff achieve mastery of the content. In pursuit of this goal, any staff member who does not pass the initial assessment will be provided with repeat opportunities until retesting results in mastery of the content.
Learner characteristics. The learners in this educational program are all members of the nursing services staff. On average, the 200 plus nurses employed at the medical center have six years of experience in a full-service medical facility,...
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