“Maintaining patient’s privacy and confidentiality has always been an ethical obligation of nurses. Navigating the nuances of what information about patients can be shared and with whom while keeping patients families and friends informed of the clinical condition of their loved one has always been tricky.” (Mccullough, J., & Schell-Chaple, H, 2013). “Confidentiality is central to the preservation of trust between doctors and their patients. The moral basis is consequentialist, in that it is to improve patient welfare. There is a wider communitarian public interest in the protection of confidences; thus, preservation of confidentiality is necessary to secure public health.” (Blightman, K., Griffiths, S., & Danbury, C. (2013). As a privacy officer
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Many of HIPPA violation occur due to improper management of health record. Patient information are sometimes left open on the computer, or discussion of patient information in public or an open area, such as the nursing station where there are many people including families, and even other workers, who aren’t involve in the patient care and are not supposed to hear about the patient health information. So, as the privacy officer, I will make sure health care providers understand the importance of patient privacy, ways to protect them and proper precautions to take to avoid violating the rule. I also believe enforcing rules and regulations, such as punishment or fines for violating the HIPPA, will motivate people to follow the rules. I believe that violating the HIPPA rule is very important and any violation of it calls for appropriate punishment. “Violation of HIPPA will be separated into two parts. Nonseparable violations are less severe violations for which the possible sanctions do not include suspension or expulsion from the institution; separable violations are more severe violations for which the possible sanctions include suspension or expulsion” (Rutgers University, n.d). An example of a nonseparable violation would be talking to a fellow health care provider about patient health information during change of shift report in an open area, …show more content…
Employees will be trained to provide only the minimum necessary information in messages, and will be given specific direction as to what information could be left in a message. Employees would also be trained to review registration information for patient contact directives regarding leaving messages. The new procedures would be incorporated into the standard staff privacy training, both as part of a refresher series and mandatory yearly compliance training.” (HIPPA case study, n.d). The retraining program will also be mandatory for every employee who is suspected of violating patient’s privacy, it will also be required for a successful completion of the retraining program in order to return back to work. After completing the program successfully the employee will be on “privacy watch” for a month. If he or she successfully complete the month of privacy watch without any violation, the employee will successfully return to work without any consequences, but if patient privacy is violated during the month of return from retraining, the employee will be reported to the appropriate authorities. In most case, he or she will result in losing the position in the institution. “Educating staff about the ethics and laws guarding patient health records, ensuring nurses help craft facility policies and guide the development and implementation of
Many of HIPPA violation occur due to improper management of health record. Patient information are sometimes left open on the computer, or discussion of patient information in public or an open area, such as the nursing station where there are many people including families, and even other workers, who aren’t involve in the patient care and are not supposed to hear about the patient health information. So, as the privacy officer, I will make sure health care providers understand the importance of patient privacy, ways to protect them and proper precautions to take to avoid violating the rule. I also believe enforcing rules and regulations, such as punishment or fines for violating the HIPPA, will motivate people to follow the rules. I believe that violating the HIPPA rule is very important and any violation of it calls for appropriate punishment. “Violation of HIPPA will be separated into two parts. Nonseparable violations are less severe violations for which the possible sanctions do not include suspension or expulsion from the institution; separable violations are more severe violations for which the possible sanctions include suspension or expulsion” (Rutgers University, n.d). An example of a nonseparable violation would be talking to a fellow health care provider about patient health information during change of shift report in an open area, …show more content…
Employees will be trained to provide only the minimum necessary information in messages, and will be given specific direction as to what information could be left in a message. Employees would also be trained to review registration information for patient contact directives regarding leaving messages. The new procedures would be incorporated into the standard staff privacy training, both as part of a refresher series and mandatory yearly compliance training.” (HIPPA case study, n.d). The retraining program will also be mandatory for every employee who is suspected of violating patient’s privacy, it will also be required for a successful completion of the retraining program in order to return back to work. After completing the program successfully the employee will be on “privacy watch” for a month. If he or she successfully complete the month of privacy watch without any violation, the employee will successfully return to work without any consequences, but if patient privacy is violated during the month of return from retraining, the employee will be reported to the appropriate authorities. In most case, he or she will result in losing the position in the institution. “Educating staff about the ethics and laws guarding patient health records, ensuring nurses help craft facility policies and guide the development and implementation of