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Protected Health Information (PHI): Privacy, Security, and Confidentiality
Best Practices
In this assessment, imagine you are a nurse in one of the health care settings described
in the following resource:
● Protected Health Information [PDF]
Before your shift begins, you scroll through Facebook and notice that a coworker has
posted a photo of herself and a patient on Facebook and described how happy she is
that her patient is making great progress. You have recently completed your annual
continuing education requirements at work and realize this is a breach of your
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 appropriate corrective action.
You follow appropriate organizational protocols and report the breach to the privacy
officer. The privacy officer takes swift 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.
