Protected Health Information: Privacy, Security and Confiden…

For this assessment, you will prepare a two-page interprofessional staff update on HIPAA and

appropriate social media use in health care.

Skilled Nursing Facility:

o Context: Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) provide therapeutic services,

rehabilitation, and continuous nursing care for patients who aren’t in an acute

phase of illness but still require specialized care. Residents often stay for

extended periods, and there’s a close-knit community feel.

o Social Media Concern: Sharing moments from daily activities, therapies, or

resident interactions can breach patient privacy, even if done with the best

intentions.

As a nurse in a skilled nursing facility, you are asked to create the content for a staff update. This staff update will be delivered using your organization’s internal communication platform and should be in the form of a social media post and should address one or more of these topics:

• Social media best practices.
• What not. to do: social media.
• Social media risks to patient information.
• Steps to take if a breach occurs.

This assessment is not a traditional essay. It is a staff educational update about PHI. Staff are frequently overwhelmed with required trainings and often click through without learning. To catch the attention of your audience be creative. Create a social media post that delivers the information required in an easy-to-read fashion like an infographic.

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:

• What is protected health information (PHI)?
• Be sure to include essential HIPAA information.
• What are privacy, security, and confidentiality?
• Describe and provide examples of privacy, security, and confidentiality concerns related to the use of technology in health care.
• Explain the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to safeguard sensitive electronic health information.
• What evidence relating to social media usage and PHI do interprofessional team members need to be aware of? For example:
• What are some examples of nurses being terminated for inappropriate social media use in the United States?
• What types of sanctions have health care organizations imposed on interdisciplinary team members who have violated social media policies?
• What have been the financial penalties assessed against health care organizations for inappropriate social media use?
• What evidence-based strategies have health care organizations employed to prevent or reduce confidentiality, privacy, and security breaches, particularly related to social media usage?

Notes

• Be selective about the content you choose to include. Include need-to-know information. Omit nice-to-know information.
• Many times, people do not read staff updates, do not read them carefully, or do not read them to the end. Ensure your staff update piques staff members’ interest, highlights key points, and is easy to read/view. Avoid overcrowding the update with too much content.
• Also, supply a separate reference page that includes two or three peer-reviewed and one or two non-peer-reviewed resources (for a total of 35 resources) to support the staff update content.
• Written communication: Ensure the staff update is free from errors that detract from the overall message.
• Submission length: Maximum of two double-spaced content pages
• Citations and references: Provide a separate reference page that includes 23 current, peer-reviewed and 12 current, non-peer-reviewed in-text citations and references (total of 35 resources) that support the staff update’s content. Current means no older than 5 years.

Example:

Infographic: The Rise of Medical Data Sharing & Privacy Concerns