MunoRN RN

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    Pt's FB pictures of me

    MunoRN replied to rse3's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    My impression is that we're talking about a picture of the student RN and her dad with a blank wall in the background, nothing else is in the
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    Pt's FB pictures of me

    MunoRN replied to rse3's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    We may be talking about two different "walls", when you post something on facebook you post it to your "wall", that re-post could be tracked back the original poster. Saving the image or printing it...
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    Pt's FB pictures of me

    MunoRN replied to rse3's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    I don't think she ever mentioned posting it to her
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    Pt's FB pictures of me

    MunoRN replied to rse3's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Your responsibility is to protect PHI that you have obtained, viewing a photo of yourself shared with the entire public does not in any way make their PHI less
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    Pt's FB pictures of me

    MunoRN replied to rse3's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Viewing/downloading and posting something are two very different things. I don't think anyone has argued that she shouldn't re-post the picture, but viewing and even downloading is much different, you...
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    Pt's FB pictures of me

    MunoRN replied to rse3's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    That's not sharing her information, that's viewing something she has shared. A Nurse (or anyone for that matter) should not then re-post or otherwise share any photos or other information that might...
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    Pt's FB pictures of me

    MunoRN replied to rse3's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    That would seem odd to the situation. If I took a picture of my waiter and posted it non-privately to facebook and they looked at their own picture I would not see anything odd about
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    Pt's FB pictures of me

    MunoRN replied to rse3's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    A full face photographic image is an identifier, not health information, if a photo had the face of the patient as well health information (a picture of them having a baby for instance) then that...
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    Pt's FB pictures of me

    MunoRN replied to rse3's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    The name by itself is not PHI, combining an identifier such as a name with health information, such as "in the hospital" is PHI. If it contains no health related information and is just a name it is...
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    Pt's FB pictures of me

    MunoRN replied to rse3's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    I don't see how the quote you gave supports this statement. I don't see "protected personal information" defined, particularly as
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    Chemical restraint and lazy nurses

    MunoRN replied to Veronica.c's topic in Patient Medications

    All antipsychotics have been shown to increase mortality in dementia patients, yet they are still used in dementia patients and for good reason. Haldol isn't used much anymore because it's risk is...
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    Pt's FB pictures of me

    MunoRN replied to rse3's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    I can't find anything to support that names by themselves are PHI. Protected health information is health or payment information that is combined with an identifier, the identifier by itself is not...
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    Pt's FB pictures of me

    MunoRN replied to rse3's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    So that would include reading and/or looking for an
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    Chemical restraint and lazy nurses

    MunoRN replied to Veronica.c's topic in Patient Medications

    Clonazepam should certainly be far down the list in terms of how hyperactive dementia is treated, but it's necessarily an improper choice in certain situations. Hyperactive delirium can be torturous...
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    Pt's FB pictures of me

    MunoRN replied to rse3's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Facebook is just obituaries for people who aren't dead yet. Both are sources of publicly available biographical information about someone. I'm still not sure how the search function is what makes...
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    Pt's FB pictures of me

    MunoRN replied to rse3's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Is it a HIPAA violation to look for someone's obituary? Sharing or otherwise exposing PHI, which is health or payment information connected to an identifier (ie patient name) is a HIPAA violation,...
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    Defensive/CYA charting

    MunoRN replied to HoneyBeGood's topic in General Nursing

    I've never heard that every instance of compliance with policy requires that it specifically be charted. It's policy pretty much everywhere to perform hand hygiene going into and out of every room,...
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    Pt's FB pictures of me

    MunoRN replied to rse3's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Obituaries are now online, is the difference between right and wrong scrolling through the names vs using the search
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    Removing a ring with O2 mask strap

    MunoRN replied to flyingchange's topic in Emergency

    It takes longer to get on but I like waxed dental floss as well, although umbilical tape is what I see commonly used. The "string trick" is actually well enough established that you'll find it in...
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    What do you think of 6 hr transport time from Aspen X-games?

    MunoRN replied to Emergent's topic in Emergency

    No argument there, and it might be more understandable in a 'typical' small town hospital where each ER doc might see acute tamponade requiring immediate intervention once every 10 years. But in...
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    What do you think of 6 hr transport time from Aspen X-games?

    MunoRN replied to Emergent's topic in Emergency

    So long as they can fly they will get airlifted to harborview, although it's not at all unusual, particularly during the winter, for people to have to go by road at least part if not all the way to...
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    Pt's FB pictures of me

    MunoRN replied to rse3's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    You're on the fence about whether or not reading a former patient's obituary is an invasion of
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    Pt's FB pictures of me

    MunoRN replied to rse3's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    What about it is different that makes one okay and one
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    Pt's FB pictures of me

    MunoRN replied to rse3's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    It may seem rhetorical, but I really am curious if we see that as being different or the same
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    Pt's FB pictures of me

    MunoRN replied to rse3's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    I often search for patient's names in the Obituaries (AKA Facebook for ICU Nurses), am I violating an ethical