In this assessment, assume you are a nurse in an acute care, community, school, nursing home, or other health caresetting. Before your shift begins, you scroll through Facebook and notice that a coworker has posted a photo ofherself and a patient on Facebook. The post states, "I am so happy Jane is feeling better. She is just the best patientI’ve ever had, and I am excited that she is on the road to recovery."
You have recently completed your annual continuing education requirements at work and realize this is a breach ofyour organization's social media policy. Your organization requires employees to immediately report such breaches to the privacy officer to ensure the post is removed immediately and that the nurse responsible receives appropriatecorrective action.
You follow appropriate organizational protocols and report the breach to the privacy officer. The privacy officer takesswift action to remove the post. Due to the severity of the breach, the organization terminates the nurse.
Based on this incident's severity, your organization has established a task force with two main goals:
Educate staff on HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care.
Prevent confidentiality, security, and privacy breaches.
The task force has been charged with creating a series of interprofessional staff updates on the following topics:
Social media best practices.
What not to do: Social media.
Social media risks to patient information.
Steps to take if a breach occurs.
You are asked to select one or more of the topics and create the content for a staff update containing a
maximum
oftwo content pages.
This assessment is not an essay
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It is a Staff Update about PHI
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The task force has asked team members assigned to the topics to include the following content in their updates inaddition to content on their selected topics:
What is protected health information (PHI)?
Be sure to include essential HIPAA information.
What are privacy, security, and confidentiality?
Define and provide examples of privacy, security, and confidentiality concerns related to the use of thetechnology in health care.
Explain the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to safeguard sensitive electronic healthinformation.
What evidence relating to social media usage and PHI do interprofessional team members need to be awareof? For example:
How many nurses have been terminated for inappropriate social media use in the United States?
What types of sanctions have health care organizations imposed on interdisciplinary team memberswho have violated social media policies?
What have been the financial penalties assessed against health care organizations for inappropriatesocial media use?
What evidence-based strategies have health care organizations employed to prevent or reduceconfidentiality, privacy, and security breaches, particularly related to social media usage?
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