Perfect App for Nursing Students

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I'm a second-year nursing student at UCLA and I recently found this app that I absolutely love. It's pretty much "Instagram for doctors", where doctors and nurses post pictures of the injuries and diseases they see on the job. It's actually really addictive to scroll through if you want more exposure to the kinds of things we'll see in clinicals and in the workplace. I haven't started clinicals yet but I'm already starting to feel more familiar with the kinds of cases I'll see in the hospital. You can also filter through specific categories according to speciality if you know what kind of nursing you're interested in. Just thought I would share if any of you are interested! You can get the app here: Figure 1 | Medical Images Let me know if any of you guys try it out, and any advice for clinicals is much appreciated!

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I found this app a few months back and absolutely LOVE it!! Hope others agree!

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I have been using it for a few months and love it as well :) I find it more interesting than Instagram and have showed it to all my pre-med/ pre-nursing friends!

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Thanks for posting this! I'm loving the app. Really fun!

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Just downloaded it! it looks really interesting :D

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Specializes in psych, addictions, hospice, education.

Do NOT post images of injuries and diseases you see on the job. That's a huge violation of HIPAA and people get fired over it! I can see it would be interesting and helpful, but....

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The app was actually designed by a doctor that was aiming to prevent the HIPPA violations that typically occur when healthcare professionals share images without any regulation. The moderators of the app approve every picture before it's posted to prevent any HIPPA violations and there are editing features as you post a picture to remove any identifying features of patients.

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Specializes in psych, addictions, hospice, education.

I still think it's a slippery slope...besides, the moderators see the original pictures. That's enough to make it not ok.

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The app was actually designed by a doctor that was aiming to prevent the HIPPA violations that typically occur when healthcare professionals share images without any regulation. The moderators of the app approve every picture before it's posted to prevent any HIPPA violations and there are editing features as you post a picture to remove any identifying features of patients.

And if there's an error, or whoever at the mother ship misses something, or somebody figures out how to remove your masking additions, and they trace it back to you? Bad practice. It's not as if there isn't a huge amount of gross wound Media or derm Media or stupid injury Media on the web already-- there is. If you want to waste your time browsing, fine, but if you want to tout this as a way to learn about a specific condition, just use Google Images.

And... it's HIPAA. HIPAA. HIPAA.

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And if there's an error, or whoever at the mother ship misses something, or somebody figures out how to remove your masking additions, and they trace it back to you? Bad practice. It's not as if there isn't a huge amount of gross wound Media or derm Media or stupid injury Media on the web already-- there is. If you want to waste your time browsing, fine, but if you want to tout this as a way to learn about a specific condition, just use Google Images.

And... it's HIPAA. HIPAA. HIPAA.

I agree it's not a risk I would be willing to take posting anything on there...I've worked to hard to get where I am to jeopardize it over posting a photo online.....but it is interesting to browse though....

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The moderators only see the images after they've been edited by the person trying to post a picture. If that person fails to edit the picture to HIPAA standards, that's their responsibility. The picture would never be posted. It's still far less violating than professionals sending around unedited pictures of their cases to colleagues.

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Sorry for the HIPAA confusion. We all make mistakes. But to address your concerns, this is directly from the app website: "We supply a number of easy, intuitive in-app tools to allow users to remove them. Our automatic face-blocking feature detects faces and blocks them, and our manual block feature allows a user to quickly and easily block anything else that might identify a patient.Once an image is uploaded, our medical officer and team of moderators performs a review of each image to verify that all identifying information has been properly removed from it before it is shown on Figure 1. However, if a user thinks that an image, comment, or description on Figure 1 improperly identifies a patient (or supplies information that risks identifying the patient), they can flag the image and it will be immediately removed until our medical officer reviews it. Should an image be deemed to potentially identify a patient, Figure 1 will immediately and securely destroy it and we will alert the user who uploaded the image accordingly.

Because our images do not have identifying details about patients and are not attached to any patient information, such as names or addresses, they do not fall under regulations such as HIPAA's Privacy Rule in the United States, privacy legislation in Canada (such as PHIPA in Ontario), or similar legislation in other jurisdictions around the world."

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