pm CT Patient Privacy
Discussion: Unit 4, Due Wednesday by 11:59 pm CT Patient Privacy Violation Instructions: Please complete the following steps for your discussion post and response. You are the Cardiac unit manager within a hospital. As you walked to your car after work, you saw a piece of paper lying on the ground. When you picked it up, you were able to read several patient names, room numbers, and notes about their medical condition. Briefly summarize the issue and violation of this situation presents. What is your reporting obligation, and who should you contact regarding what you found? What repercussions could the person responsible for dropping this paper face? Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format. The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria. Estimated time to complete: 2 hours Peer Responses: Unit 4, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT Patient Privacy Violation Instructions: Please post 2 peer responses. In the response post, include the following: Assume the role of a professional colleague to your classmate. It has been discovered that the person responsible for dropping the paper containing PHI was a physician within the Cardiac unit. Your colleague (the Cardiac manager) has asked you for advice on how to handle the situation. Assess the information contained in your classmate’s primary post regarding reporting actions. Offer feedback as needed. Propose a plan for handling the situation within the department. This may include how to approach the physician, compliance training, notations in a personnel file, etc. Your plan must be supported by at least one scholarly source. Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
