HIPPA

[kandi238]

Is there a law about CNAs knowing too much on a resident (i.e are the CNAs allowed to know everything a nurse knows about a resident)?

[mrsboots87]

Not to be rude, but it's "HIPAA." And the answer to your question is no. You are legally aloud to the information required to do your job. This may include some PMH and stuff on the patient in order to better care for them. But you will not get their complete H&P and will not get report on every little detail about a patient that does not apply to your role in their care.

However, if you over hear something about a patient that you don't need to know, you will not have committed a violation. Just don't report that info to anyone else and you are good.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

Moved to the HIPAA/Nursing Challenges forum.

[kandi238]

Thank you and I know I typed it in correct but my phone thinks it knows it all "lol"

[vanilla bean]

Not to be rude, but it's "HIPAA." And the answer to your question is no. You are legally aloud to the information required to do your job.

Not to be rude, but it's "allowed." Sorry, mrsboots, I couldn't help myself.

[Glycerine82, LPN]

CNAs should know only what they need to know in order to effectively do their job.

[carolinapooh, BSN, RN]

This isn't the CIA. The better picture a CNA has of their patient the better job they will do. Would you like it if an RN didn't stop to explain specific IV meds he/she was giving your patient (assuming you were in a facility that didn't allow LPNs to give IV meds, of course)?

I explain plenty of things about patients to my military medical technicians just as I used to for the CNAs when I was a civilian. I do it to teach. Many med techs end up as commissioned nurses, and mentoring is as much a part of my job as ensuring the patient is properly taken care of is.