Lets start art by saying I have traveled for 5 years all over the USA, in very important hospitals with lots of important patients. I am 30 years old and have a perfect traveling profile. Okay moving on. I took an assignment on a small local hospital. Everything was going fine and I extended the contract. Mean while something horrible and sad happened locally, made it to the national news and some of the patients came to our hospital. Weeks passed and I get called in to this office. The director accuses me of accessing one chart, because my name is on it. I defend my self saying we look up hundredths of patients and I have no reason on looking up this high profile chart of which name I didn't know at the time. The director says hundredths of staff members have been looking at these charts and I am going to do as I would any of them and terminate your contract. I assured her I didn't do this and if I Did it was 100% accidental. We get emergencies all the time and wrong patients names. I also said my log in could of easily been accessed and used to look at this chart.
I was not provided with any dates, times, or reports accessed. I was only told it was "less than a minute". My contract was terminated 3 weeks early. I'm not only in shocked but upset, but embarrassed personally, financially and professionally. I can no longer work in this hospital or any affiliated hospitals and with the traveling company that was the middle person between my company and the hospital. I have been tagged as level 1 HIPAA violation.
People at the hospital are being extremely supportive saying it was wrongful termination and the hospital is trying to set an example out of me, since I am not a union member. Also saying I should get and attorney since i was only doing what I was thought. For what I know one staff member and my self were terminated. What do you guys think I should do?
