I'm appalled to say i came from a school that allowed this, but i want to hear what you guys think.
So we had this girl that graduated last year, she came from a very very wealthy family. we shall call her "Jane Doe" I mean...very wealthy, beyond the point where you cringe. And she is super showy about it. Daddy bought her everything. her New mercedes for passing pediatrics, a class in which she struggled.
She is constantly dressed up in like Gucci stuff, only does her shopping in New York City, which they fly too every couple months so she can shop with daddy's credit card.
Ok, she reminds me of paris hilton. No joke! So to imagine this girl, think of Paris Hilton in Nursing school and you have this girl.
Ok, now you picture this girl. She is was in her psychiatric rotation at our local mental health facility. There was a girl that Jane Doe went to high school with that was in the psych unit for attempted suicide. Jane Doe and this other girl, the patient HATED each other in high school. I belive they've gotten in a few fights, constantly fighting blah blah blah (high school stuff). Anyway...so Jane Doe actually access her medical record and got all this information about her. Such has her hx of depression, suicide attempts, drug use etc. So Jane Doe gets home after her clinical day and tells her ROOMMATE, who isnt even in nursing, who she saw. She told her Roommate everything she read on the medical record.
So Jane Doe starts emailing anonymously this poor girl things like "If you were smart enough you would have jumped off that bridge" ....really really horrible stuff.
So anyway, make a long story short because there was more said and done, this patient complained to the hospital that someone had to have shared information because she is getting all these emails and its information only the hospital knows (medications, history etc.). So while the hospital is doing their investigation, she is still writing all these nasty emails to this poor girl. Her Roommate knew all about it (but not being in nursing knew nothing about HIPPA). So her roommate goes to one of our psychiatric nursing instructor and asked to speak with her privately. The roommate told her everything, just stating that she doesn't know if Jane Doe is doing something wrong or if there are any regulations against this but her roommate felt something was very very wrong about the situation.
So all actions that should have taken place, did take place. She was suspended from clinicals until it was reviewed, hospital was notified, the head hanchos got involved...everything. But now here is the catch----- her dad donated $100,000 to the school. and little miss prissy pants got off with NOTHING. No punishment, not kicked out of the school, nothing but a slap on the hand.
What do you guys think of this?? It disgusts me to even look at her. Needless to say, she got a job after daddy donated money to the hospital she got hired at (Sound fishy??)
I'm appalled to say i came from a school that allowed this, but i want to hear what you guys think.