Shredding

[OneRN50]

So I work in a correctional facility in NYS and our utilization review nurse is in our offices as well. She does death reports and shares our shredding bin.  I intermittently shred on my midnight shift and there were piles of death reports in there I did not read all of it but looked at it briefly. I shredded all of it and would never do anything with the info and don't know the depth of what was there. I alerted my supervisor and she is going to speak with the SURN about either shredding her own documents or not using our bin.  I feel so guilty for looking at it however slight it was. I know better. Nothing was breached, shared or utilized for anything

[JKL33]

Are you working as a nurse?

I gotta say this is a little....much. There is no way for every professional to shred every unneeded document they touch in real time so that someone else who shares a bin has no chance of seeing it.

Just be a professional. You did not need to have a big confessional with your supervisor over this or ask others not to share your bin. This is a normal course of business.