HIPPA breach?

[GingerChandra]

I am terrified that I breached patient confidentially yesterday. I am a Canadian nursing student in my last semester of school. I had a crazy shift a few days ago and left the hospital feeling exhausted. However, I got home and was convinced that I committed a med error during this shift on one of the two patients in a specific patient room. (Gave a med PO instead of SL.... I know not a big deal but I wanted to take responsibility for it if I had made this mistake.) When I returned the next day, I was acting as charge nurse with my preceptor. One of those patients was still on our unit so I was able to check the MAR and see that I gave no SL meds to her the night before. The other patient had been transferred to another floor of the hospital but I could still access her chart in my patient list on the computer. I only looked at her medications and saw that I hadn't given any SL meds to her either. Is this a breach of confidentiality? I only wanted to make sure I hadn't made a mistake that I needed to report.

[Orca, ADN, ASN, RN]

I don't see any issue with you reviewing your own documentation.

[Jory, MSN, APRN, CNM]

Not at all. In fact, a good nurse will pull back up a chart and look at it to double check their documentation if they are not sure about something. You'll find this is a common practice.