The health insurance portability and accountability Medicine Essay (Essay Sample)

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March 04, 2020
1 Describe the post or conversations in which you have engaged that might be considered inappropriate based on the professional standards of nursing.
Captured videos and photos of partially nude or completely nude old patients and posted them on Social media. One photo revealed a doctor on duty vomiting; another one displayed a patient being aided with an obstructed bowel. Complete identity of a patient with Dementia and Alzheimers diseases were posted on facebook and shared by many nursing pages and groups. I shared the post of a nursing assistant which he posted a photo of a patients hand on facebook with a comment of I’m with her side and holding her hands until she falls asleep. I also shared a post about a patient who is suffering from incontinence in which in the photo it showed the patient’s genitals covered in feces; I retweeted a picture of a patient with Down syndrome.
2 Discuss why nurses have a responsibility to uphold a standard of conduct consistent with the standards governing the profession of nursing at work in their personal lives