HSE 340 Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric

In Milestone One, you created an introduction to the case study. Your introduction required you to examine the basis for the laws and ethics related to releasing con dential information. You reviewed strategies to assist with prevention of ethics and law violations related to protected health information (PHI).

For this milestone, you will utilize knowledge learned from your work on the introduction, and you will place yourself in the role of a human services professional (HSP) who is facilitating discharge from a psychiatric hospital. Unique to this case is that the patient is a parolee who was admitted for care in the facility for a crisis involving an accidental overdose of street drugs. The federal regulation, 42 CFR Part 2, will greatly assist you in completing this milestone, as will the module readings and resources provided up to this point.

Consider the following scenario.

Stephanie is a human-services policy analyst who works with the state-run psychiatric hospital system. Her job is to facilitate discharges of patients to the community by coordinating with local mental-health centers and providers of care to make sure that the patient has adequate and immediate post-discharge care. Stephanie received a call from a parole of cer of a 25-yearold undocumented-immigrant patient named Kevin, who was in the hospital. The parole of cer indicated that Kevin violated parole by abusing illegal substances prior to the admission to the state hospital. The parole of cer asked questions about Kevin’s diagnoses, where he was being discharged to, and the staff involved in his care while hospitalized. You have been asked to determine if Stephanie can legally and ethically answer these questions and provide con dential health information about Kevin to the parole of cer.

For this milestone, you will submit a draft of the review of the case, including all critical elements listed below. Using the information reviewed for Milestone One, discuss information that can and cannot be released to a parole of cer, particularly information about an individual who has a substance abuse diagnosis along with mental illness, and is being discharged from a psychiatric facility to the community. A state statute from your state of residence can provide information related to parole of individuals previously incarcerated. Provide an example of how an inappropriate release of con dential information can be remediated in order to prevent a lawsuit against the human services professional (HSP) and/or the agency. Some State Departments of Health and Human Services have information related to this issue. Make sure to review both federal and state statutes to gain a more comprehensive viewpoint.

Speci cally, the following critical elements must be addressed:

II. Review of the Case

Based on your analysis of the codes of ethics and legal considerations in human services, create strategies to address questions about the case.

A. What information can be released to the parole of cer? What information should not be released to the parole of cer? Justify your responses.

B.

If information is released that should not be, what are the legal rami cations for the human services professional and her organization? Justify your claims with relevant, scholarly

research.

C.

What are the ethical issues that would arise for the policy analyst and her organization due to releasing information that should not be released? Recommend appropriate legal strategies to mitigate identi ed ethical issues.

D.

Include other issues that should be considered that are speci c to this case scenario and related to compliance with NOHS ethical standards and laws that govern in the human

services eld. Justify your claims using concrete, relevant examples.

What to Submit

Milestone Two must be submitted as a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least ve sources cited in APA

format.

Milestone Two Rubric