Help! I really messed up and don't know what to do

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I just started working Home Health prn and today was my first day alone. Last week I drove around with a couple of nurses. Since I am not quite organized yet and don't have my groove down, I wrote my vitals and scratch notes on a small tablet and carried it around with me. I think I left this notepad at my last patient's house because I cannot find it!! It had two other patient names on it, but no other info such as dob, etc, and the names were common... I can't believe I did this and am so worried now about the consequences... what do I do?? I can't sleep.. so worried about this

Oh ok, I had no idea that they had a facebook! I am behind the times I guess.

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Specializes in Trauma Surgical ICU.

What do you mean AN decides what is posted on FB?? Can someone explain that to me

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Specializes in psych, addictions, hospice, education.

Wow, I'm kind of upset that AN posts things we write here, on Facebook!

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Wow, I'm kind of upset that AN posts things we write here, on Facebook!

I know. Whoa.

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Specializes in Med/surg, Quality & Risk.
What do you mean AN decides what is posted on FB?? Can someone explain that to me

They have a Facebook page. People "like" their page, and receive these posts on their own Facebook feeds. Whoever is in control of the Allnurses.com's Facebook page chooses what board posts to cross over to Facebook.

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Whoa!

Had no idea that was happening.

Good reason not to post here!

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Specializes in LTC, medsurg.

Whether or not its posted on Facebook, it's still anonymous unless you reply to what AN placed on Facebook with your personal account. Its No biggie!

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Specializes in Emergency.

Actually to me this is a biggie. I def will be limiting my posting here based on learning this. I just learned a valuable lesson. Nothing is safe from Facebook!

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Specializes in ICU.

Hmm...That is a practice that would be appropriate to alert registering members to. I know that all things considered, it probably wouldn't be defined as an egregious breech of privacy...but it still kind of feels like one.

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Specializes in ICU.

No mention of Facebook routing in the Privacy Policy...And looking at a few of the posts on Facebook, I see that AN uses the avatars members select on this site to attach to the posts - some of those avatars are actual photos of members.

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Specializes in CCU, Geriatrics, Critical Care, Tele.

Yes, allnurses.com has a facebook page, you can find it here: https://www.facebook.com/allnursescom

allnurses.com is a public site and is indexed in google daily and easily searched via google and search engines. If there is something you are concerned about being public knowledge, you should not be posting it anywhere online.

We occasionally share post from allnurses.com on our facebook page. No personal details are shared, we just share a link to the website with brief context from the page.

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Specializes in ICU.

I get around this issue by not "liking" the Facebook page with no plans to "like" it in the future unless there is some transparency in term of information sharing between the sites.

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