Working as a traveler in Utah and came across something that increasingly bothers me the more I think about it.
Had a situation come up where employee health contacted me and notified me they were missing some documentation for vaccination. Not a problem as I had the documents on hand and sent them over immediately. About 20 minutes later I get an email from the nursing education department at the same hospital for the same documents. I didn't really think anything about it at first but the more I reflect on it I think it's kind of strange that nursing education has access to my employee health record. I've been working as a nurse for 20+ years and I've never been contacted by someone in a nursing education department at any facility about anything in my health record that I was under the impression was confidential on a need-to-know basis. I'm just curious if anyone can provide insight as to the legality of nurse educators having access to PHI in an employee health record.