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Privacy Is Everything

June 4, 2020 by LORIE A BROWN, R.N., M.N., J.D. 1 Comment

This past week, a Maryville, Tennessee, nurse was fired for allegedly posting racist and violent messages through her Facebook account. It was later learned that she could not have made the comments because hospital security footage showed that she was in a patient’s room at the approximate time the comments were made. Then it was learned that the horrible posts were composed by her fiancé on her social media account.  He even went to the hospital to tell officials that it was he rather … [Read more...]

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Privacy Matters To Patients

December 26, 2019 by LORIE A BROWN, R.N., M.N., J.D. Leave a Comment

I often hear of nurses who made HIPAA violations, none of whom intended to breach privacy but either curiosity or carelessness got the best of them. Here are ten such examples: EMR – If you forget to log out of a computer terminal, someone else can follow you to access anything under you log in. Computers are smart and everything you do on the device can be tracked.  Every keystroke you make, every chart you look at, everything!  Even if you accidentally pull up a wrong patient’s chart, … [Read more...]

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