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Introduction <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Health care providers today must develop their skills in mitigating risks to their patients and themselves related to patient information. At the same time, they need to be able distinguish between effective and ineffective uses of social media in health care.<\/p>\n This assessment will require you to develop a staff update for an interprofessional team to encourage team members to protect the privacy, confidentiality, and security of patient information.<\/p>\n Professional Context <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Health professionals today are increasingly accountable for the use of protected health information (PHI). Various government and regulatory agencies promote and support privacy and security through a variety of activities. Examples include:<\/p>\n Technological advances, such as the use of social media platforms and applications for patient progress tracking and communication, have provided more access to health information and improved communication between care providers and patients.<\/p>\n At the same time, advances such as these have resulted in more risk for protecting PHI. Nurses typically receive annual training on protecting patient information in their everyday practice. This training usually emphasizes privacy, security, and confidentiality best practices such as:<\/p>\n Today, one of the major risks associated with privacy and confidentiality of patient identity and data relates to social media. Many nurses and other health care providers place themselves at risk when they use social media or other electronic communication systems inappropriately. For example, a Texas nurse was recently terminated for posting patient vaccination information on Facebook. In another case, a New York nurse was terminated for posting an insensitive emergency department photo on her Instagram account.<\/p>\n Preparation <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n As you begin to consider the assessment, it would be an excellent choice to complete the Breach of Protected Health Information (PHI) activity. The activity will support your success with the assessment by creating the opportunity for you to test your knowledge of potential privacy, security, and confidentiality violations of protected health information. The activity is not graded and counts towards course engagement.<\/p>\n To successfully prepare to complete this assessment, complete the following:<\/p>\n Scenario <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n In this assessment, imagine you are a nurse in one of the health care settings described in the following resource:<\/p>\n Before your shift begins, you scroll through Facebook and notice that a coworker has posted a photo of herself and a patient on Facebook and described how happy she is that her patient is making great progress. You have recently completed your annual continuing education requirements at work and realize this is a breach of your organization’s social media policy. Your organization requires employees to immediately report such breaches to the privacy officer to ensure the post is removed immediately and that the nurse responsible receives appropriate corrective action.<\/p>\n You follow appropriate organizational protocols and report the breach to the privacy officer. The privacy officer takes swift action to remove the post. Due to the severity of the breach, the organization terminates the nurse.<\/p>\n Based on this incident’s severity, your organization has established a task force with two main goals:<\/p>\n The task force has been charged with creating a series of interprofessional staff updates on the following topics:<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Instructions <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n First, select one of the health care settings described in the following resource:<\/p>\n As a nurse in this setting, you are asked to create the content for a staff update containing a maximum<\/b> of two content pages that address one or more of these topics:<\/p>\n This assessment is not a traditional essay<\/b>. It is a staff educational update about PHI.<\/b> Consider creating a flyer, pamphlet, or one PowerPoint slide (not an entire presentation). Remember it should not be more than two pages (excluding a title and a reference page).<\/p>\n The task force has asked team members assigned to the topics to include the following content in their updates in addition to content on their selected topics:<\/p>\n Notes<\/b><\/p>\n Additional Requirements <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Competencies Measured <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:<\/p>\n <\/b> Use the resources linked below to help complete this assessment.<\/b><\/p>\n <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Nursing Infographics on Protecting PHI<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n These infographics serve as examples of how to succinctly summarize information. In your staff update assessment, you will not have all the images and graphics that infographics might contain; instead, focus your analysis on what makes the messaging effective. Apply these principles to writing your interprofessional staff update.<\/p>\n The Nurses Role In Patient Privacy <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n <\/b> Social Media and Privacy <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n
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