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Do nurses have a right to privacy?

Hello

I'd like to tell you about what happened to another nurse and myself this week. It has left me with so many feelings that i just cannot pin-point how i feel.

We work in a nursing home that deals with many psych and behavioral issues. Many younger residents mixed in the population. Many checkered pasts!

Several months ago myself and another nurse were accused of assault by a resident who was intoxicated. I won't go into what happened- it was all resolved and unfounded.

This resident had requested a copy of the police report from the PD and DON.

Would you believe that the PD and DON gave him a copy! Ok no problem that's his right.

But the copy contained : our names, our addresses, our phone number, and if thats not enough.. our DOB and our Social Security Number!:banghead:

This was brought to our attention when the resident stated he basically felt he had too much info about us.

I would like other nurses feedback/comments please.

Thank You

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That's all I can say.

Hello

I'd like to tell you about what happened to another nurse and myself this week. It has left me with so many feelings that i just cannot pin-point how i feel.

We work in a nursing home that deals with many psych and behavioral issues. Many younger residents mixed in the population. Many checkered pasts!

Several months ago myself and another nurse were accused of assault by a resident who was intoxicated. I won't go into what happened- it was all resolved and unfounded.

This resident had requested a copy of the police report from the PD and DON.

Would you believe that the PD and DON gave him a copy! Ok no problem that's his right.

But the copy contained : our names, our addresses, our phone number, and if thats not enough.. our DOB and our Social Security Number!:banghead:

This was brought to our attention when the resident stated he basically felt he had too much info about us.

I would like other nurses feedback/comments please.

Thank You

How awful!!!!!!!!!!

Can you have a conversation with a lawyer about your rights?

I just can't get over this. The DON should be fired, at the very least. And the sooner, the better.

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I recommend talking with an attorney before making any fuss about your rights being violated. Find out what your rights are from someone in the legal profession. Then decide what to do based on the legal counsel you get.

Wow, you're wide open to identity theft now. This makes me very nervous!

ooh man i would be so mad at that DON.. that man has your name and address...... how dare she do that... oooh i get mad just thinking about it... the nerve she has... this man probably knows all about you.. he could move in next door to you.... Lawyer up !!

He could have gone to the police station and got the same report, couldn't he have? I don't think this has much of anything to do with you being a nurse.

Your address, phone number, DOB, and SSN should have been blacked out, IMO.

Call Equifax and the other big 2 and have them put a "fraud watch" on your accounts.

Actually, you only need to call one of the bureaus and the other's will be notified and put the fraud alert on your credit reports.

Also, I have gotten police reports in the past and they are ALWAYS redacted to eliminate that kind of personal information! Someone messed up big time!

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I think an important issue is would the same information be available to the other party if you were accused of any other sort of crime in any other setting -- if you were "just" a member of the general public. I know that when I was involved in a serious MVA a couple years ago, I was able to get a copy of the police report related to the accident just by going to the PD and asking, with all the info they collected about the other driver right there on the form (I don't remember what specific personal info was on the report, though). I guess my point is that I don't think that nurses are entitled to any special degree of privacy above and beyond the general public ...

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