Question

You are an RN in an acute care facility working in a post-surgical inpatient unit as a shift supervisor. Many of the nurses who you work with are also your personal friends. Upon accessing one of your social media accounts, you noticed that one of your colleagues has posted information about patients they were caring for earlier in the week, and you are worried some of the information shared could be considered a violation of Protected Health Information (PHI). What laws/policies could this person be violated?

Answer 1

Answer. There are many laws or rules decided by the health department under which many different aspects fall. Violation of any such law or rule is always interogated.

In this case, sharing of any protected health information with any outsider or on social media is strictly the violation, because sharing anyone's personal information to all without his/her consent, calls for the legal actions.

This violation will be supervised by interrogators with the help of internal audits. The person responsible for this will be punished, depending upon the ethnicity and effects of the fault. It can be penalty in terms of money, or job release or jail terms also.