A nurse asks you to dispose of some old laboratory reports that fall under the category of PHI. Where is the correct place, under HIPAA Privacy, to dispose of them?
Select the true statements. Choose all that apply.
What is the appropriate action when leaving a computer in a clinical agency when you are logged in? Select all that apply.
Three consequences if HIPAA Privacy has been breached by an individual include:
A student or faculty member is assigned to a clinical agency. During your clinical experience hours, you may access the electronic medical record of your minor child because you are the legal guardian and the guarantor of payment.
You can access your own medical record via the computer system during your assigned clinical hours in a clinical facility.
You think you may have violated the facility’s privacy policy (breach), you should:
If a person has the ability to access facility/clinical agency systems or applications, they have a right to view any information contained in that system or application.
If you suspect someone is violating the facility’s privacy policy, you should:
Your best friend's grandmother is in the hospital on the unit where you are observing. You overhear two nurses discussing the grandmother's condition. Should you tell your friend what you overheard when you are in the cafeteria having lunch?
What is the standard (appropriate reason) for accessing patient information?
The doctor was making rounds and was paged. The doctor left the patient's medical record on the patient's bedside table. The patient asks you to hand him his record. What would you do?
You are reading mail to a patient with vision problems. The patient's doctor was just in the room talking with the patient about a new diagnosis of cancer. The patient is crying and is very upset. A visitor walks in and asked you what is going on. You know what just happened; under HIPAA, would you tell the visitor?
Protected Health Information is anything that connects a patient to his or her health information.
Your patient has a very interesting surgical wound site. You would like to take a picture to share in your post-conference. The patient says it is OK with him/her. What is the most appropriate action?
A student may text a faculty member/instructor in the clinical agency to let them know he/she is ready to give medications if only the room number of the patient is included.
