Imagine you work in a hospital and as you are stepping off of the elevator, you notice a piece of paper on the floor.

Imagine you work in a hospital and as you are stepping off of the elevator, you notice a piece of paper on the floor. You pick it up and see the above information on Susan Bowers. Understanding the importance of a person’s private health information confidentiality, you immediately take this information to the hospital’s IT Security Officer who monitors the EHR and its users. After tracking the “footprints” left behind when the users accessed Susan Bowers’ chart, the Security Officer was able to determine who printed the information.

Choose from one of the following instances and write a hospital policy or procedure for the instance you selected. Include your policy/procedure in the same Word document as the Susan Bowers information you pasted and highlighted:

(Option 1) A nursing student does not have time to write everything down from the patient’s EHR record before leaving clinical in the afternoon. The student has asked to print the patient’s personal health history to take home. Write a hospital policy on printing patient information to be removed from the unit.

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(Option 2) You are the charge nurse in a busy pediatric unit. The case manager for the pediatric unit wants to discuss discharge plans with you on four of the patients. To make it easier, the case manager prints out the most current information from each of the patients’ charts to take notes on while talking with you. Write a procedure for the destruction of the printed information once the case manager is finished with them.