HIPPA Methodology

                  My research methodology covers my research process and what I plan to do with my remaining time during this research process. The topics I cover are finding my sources, what I want to communicate, my plan, and the gap.

    Finding my sources:                      In my research what I immediately wanted to research was the HIPPA law. So approaching this topic I went on the UCF library page and searched “HIPPA” in articles and data bases. To narrow my search I made sure all of the sources were peer reviewed, and to make sure they were credible and reliable. So when I started gathering data, trying to make a conversation with all of the data, my first thought was communicating this information to society, so they were aware of their rights. The problem I had with this particular issue is that no one from society was doing research on HIPPA or asking for the information. So when I furthered my research to search for a new issue on a topic that intrigued others I came across one important issue, nurses are very confused on HIPPA and its laws and regulations. There have been question and answer forums where nurses with higher degrees and who have greater knowledge of the law communicate questions to nurses who are confused. I also noticed that some nurses tell the negative parts of HIPPA in their articles, but there are solutions to these issues in other articles.

What I want to communicate:          When I finally came to the decision of my audience being nurses, I had to formulate a way to give information on the HIPPA law to them. My goal of my research and paper is to create a document in which I gather a chunk of information from HIPPA, from issues such as child care, rights, and special situations that HIPPA can affect. To start my original claim I started researching many different forms, and situations the law can affect. I found articles on the rights parents have on their children, and what rights a child has in an abusive situation. I then found research on how HIPPA affects research, and how you can go about finding the research you need while still abiding with HIPPA.

My Plan:                                My plan on piecing the conversation together is to write in a genre in which nurses find credible and reliable. I will use headers such as HIPPA and its effects on child abuse, and other topics of that nature. I will do my best to find graphs, and cite the credible sources from professors and researchers who have researched this topic. My goal to actually giving this information to the nurses is to post my findings on a nurse’s blog, to start a conversation and give nurses the information they have been searching for.

                The Gap:                            All in all, my method was finding a variety of sources on the HIPPA law and trying to find the need for new research, trying to figure out a way of filling in the gap. The gaps come in place when nurses do not have a giant piece of research covering various topics of HIPPA which is what I plan to do. I gathered numerous data on many aspects of HIPPA from credible sources, researched the stakeholders, and I am formulating a method of giving nurses my findings in a credible way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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