Professionally speaking, CNAlove, I admire and applaud your concerns and endeavor to gain more information about HIPAA because patient confidentiality is a big deal.
As far as facilities showing...
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OH NO! I was being as serious as a myocardial infarction, CNAlove.
An individual not providing direct care to a patient has no need- no right- to have access to their last name...
The facility I worked at last had an occasion where a tech left a patient list on a WOW. The list showed the patients' last name, a visitor got ahold of it, and there was this big stink about it being...
Wow, A-panda. Major life transitions: Leaving a position where you felt comfortable & confident, and family and friends, relocating, a new position on MN shift, and less time with your main...
Davey Do replied to Sharmilagrg00's topic in General Nursing
I doff my proverbial hat to you, Sharmilagrg, for giving us a status report and for making a decision for which you are comfortable.
Too often on these forums, we discuss a problem situation and...
Davey Do replied to Sharmilagrg00's topic in General Nursing
It is a common occurrence for people to ask questions not to gain information, but to challenge or point out a weakness in a premise.
A behavioral situation is identified, and most will focus on...
Davey Do replied to Sharmilagrg00's topic in General Nursing
Low self-esteemed individuals will use devices such as emotional blackmail in order to gain power and control the situation.
Those with low self-esteem are on a constant quest for validation, so...
It is interesting that when a member posts a perspective another finds offensive, then the member becomes the antagonist, worthy of negative labels, just because something may have been inferred from...
Davey Do replied to aspiringnurse746090001's topic in General Nursing
Rumination and obsession are the minds way of trying to work things out and get a piece of information that will hold the key to a solution, aspiringnurse. We think the same thoughts, subsequently...
My first love affair with shoes came in 1986 while working as a scrub in the OR. I was introduced to Ms. New Balance by a podiatrist with whom I regularly scrubbed. Those were the days before every...
One time I had to go to a mandatory meeting and felt hungry, so I got a small bag of peanut M&Ms out of the machine. I figured it'd tie me over until lunch, so I ate the whole bag during the...
Davey Do replied to GracePressure's topic in General Nursing
This person has poor boundaries and needs not to be given any control over the situation.
I have said in similar situations, "If you want to talk to me, it will be with management present" and...