Violated Patient's Consent Essay

As for today, whole world using some sort of technology. Everybody, or least every other person, has smartphone, laptop or other electronic devices which they are using for various purposes such as news, games, social media, studying, researching and etc. More on, all the gadgets and internet plans are at affordable prices. Therefore, there is no age or price limitations on media and they are being very popular in recent years. For example, Tweeting, blogging, texting, using Facebook, Instagram and other social media for personal or professional use has been increasing every day. “It has been reported that Facebook has over 1 billion active users and Twitter has over 140 million users. Approximately eight of 10 health care companies use social

In my opinion conclusion four is more appropriate out all four. First of all, Floor nurse violated patient’s privacy by taking pictures without his consent. Obviously, she did not do it on purpose. Since that patient himself a famous celebrity, the nurse thought it is okay to take pictures. However, in my opinion when that celebrity admitted to hospital he must have signed all those consent form to protect his information. Every patient’s confidential information should be protected same way whether it is a president or a common man. Second, nurse violated HIPAA rule when she told her friend by confirming admission of a celebrity at the hospital. There is possibility that her friend whom she shared photos with can miss lead information. Plus, she can post those pictures on social media by creating a account under different name. In this case, nurse did her action in excitement without thinking about bigger picture. Celebrity who is admitted to hospital can sued nurse and hospital for taking pictures without his consent. According to Basevi, Reid and Godbold, “This is a high risk area [use of smartphones and social media to share information] for health professionals and breaches in patient confidentiality have resulted in disciplinary action, termination of employment and deregistration from professional boards” (2014). To prevent similar incident to happen, healthcare facilities must provide training, some knowledge and examples frequently. They should gather more information from the news to teach their employees about limitation of technology use. (Norton & Struss, 2013, pg. 50). Of course, all healthcare professionals have responsibility to be knowledgeable about policies and consequences of actions that can violate patient’s privacy. In other words, they must think what they can do and cannot do when it is matter of