Dhready

Hi I tried to respond to your DM but the site won't let me.

Well we were actually done at that clinical site and just moving on to the next one. So I guess I was lucky there. Believe me I am really beating myself up over this. I had so much invested. The supervisor did mention readmission for next year might be possible, but maybe she was just saying that. My main concern is, will this hinder me from getting into another program? And that's the reason I hesitate to try to appeal.

First of all, let me thank you for replying. I so appreciate your input. I'm happy to know that it isn't a HIPAA violation, but I'm a little distressed that I was told that it was and I had no appeal. That's the reason that I hesitate to push this because I don't know what repercussions could arise. I've been warned by some other students in the class set the instructor might be a bit vindictive and hinder me in applying to other programs, and there aren't many in the area, maybe two RN programs. You gave me a lot of concerns to think about that I hadn't thought about. And believe me in the two weeks since I was dismissed I have been reading and I have learned a lot. Having never worked in Healthcare before I really feel like this was a big eye opener. What you say about the patients, and the patient in this case makes total sense and I should have known better. I will from now on and never make these mistakes again. I tried to explain my point to the school at the time. It just seems like it didn't matter what I said. And I was told I had no appeal and I was lucky that the hospital wasn't reporting me. Also at this late point I don't know if they even did let me back in if I would be able to catch up, you know with the clinical hours and not being able to miss them.

Hi I'm new here and was hoping for some advice. I was recently dismissed from my LPN program for HIPAA violation. I was told it was a HIPAA violation and I was lucky the hospital wasn't going to report it. I was also told that I had no appeal. What happened was this, I went to preassign at about 6 p.m. at night. I took my 14 year old son and I was told that I could put him in a type of waiting area while I did my work. I was allowed to do this a couple weeks back as well so I believed there was no issue. I had become friendly with an ex-patient. I had not had this patient for over a month. Feeling badly because this patient was so ill and still in the hospital I stopped quickly just to say hello. I informed him that I was leaving and I was in the process of getting my son who was waiting for me. The patient asked me to please bring my son into his room and let him meet him. Considering I had the patient request this I didn't think it was a problem. I went and got my son who was waiting for me and let him meet the patient. Then we left. About a week and a half later I was called to the administrator's office that the hospital had written to them with their concerns. They said when the patient was asked if my son was his visitor he said no. However I'm not sure how the questioning was presented to the patient. Considering my son and I were not unplanned visitors, you can understand the answer. I was dismissed from the program and told that the hospital would not be reporting it as I could be in a lot more trouble. This obviously scared me greatly and I haven't even tried to appeal any decision. We touched on HIPAA briefly but an incident like this wasn't really discussed. I'm just trying to get some info as I have been scouring any information I can find about HIPAA to see where I went wrong. I'm also afraid to try to appeal to get back into this program even though I spent a lot of money and effort and I had the top grades in the class. As some of you might say from what I've read in past posts, there might be more to the story. One of my clinical instructors didn't seem to like me very much and maybe this could be a deciding factor? Meaning that I read somewhere once that if you are already having issues Maybe they won't be so keen on keeping you and will let you go. I didn't have any issues except for one time I didn't get a patient washed up quick enough for her liking. As you can imagine there's a lot and it would take a lot of info to give you more. I'm willing to do that for some insight here and any advice of what I should do. Should I try to fight this or should I leave well enough alone. I don't remember signing anything with HIPAA and I remember getting a very general HIPAA education.