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Upstate New York nurse convicted of taking picture of patient's member surrenders license | New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV

"Johnson also used her iPhone to take a video of another nurse cleaning an incapacitated female patient's gastrointestinal blood clot." - does this mean lower GI bleed???

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Specializes in ICU, Postpartum, Onc, PACU.

Some nurses are fired or suspended for things that I'd never guess would be inappropriate. There was a nurse (I believe she was at NYU med center) who took a picture of a messy trauma room after the fact to sort of document the craziness that had been that shift. I didn't see anything wrong with that, but she was either suspended or terminated because of it (she got the job back, I think, so it was probably just suspended). I didn't see any HIPPA violations so go figure...

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Specializes in ICU, Postpartum, Onc, PACU.
Maevish, the vast majority of nurses would never take such a photo, and in this case it was co-workers who did the right thing and turned her in. Hopefully the administrators applauded their doing so. All nurses need to stand up to the rogue ones who violate patient privacy in whatever form it takes.

I would hope so.

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Specializes in kids.
I think nearly every nurse has seen something that was picture/video worthy in their careers, but that doesn't mean we have done that! This story made me so embarrassed when I first heard it...I've seen some incredibly impressive "junk" tattoos, but never thought of taking a picture!

xo

Ah yes, just because you can, does not mean you should!!!

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