Who here keeps a personal diary? Of those that keep a diary how much nursing stuff gets thrown in there?
I've been keeping a diary since June and I've been kind of scared to mention too much about my working life in there because of HIPAA, but there are just so many things that I think I'd benefit from writing down in detail so I don't forget them later. I'd also want to use names so that if, god forbid, I ever had to go to court I could look up the day in my diary and use that to jog my memory. I can write things in my diary that I can't write in the notes, if you know what I mean.
But at the same time I think that it might be a huge HIPAA violation for me to have a book with tons of people's medical information and outcomes in my possession. What if this book was ever found? Could I get in trouble for it? Or would my right to privacy to keep a journal of my own personal experiences that I was directly involved in supersede somebody else's write to medical privacy?
And for the record, this question is purely academic. I've been too scared to write anything too detailed about work or clinicals in my diary.
