HIPAA violation compromises a patient and lands a nurse in hot water.
A reader was reprimanded by her state board of nursing for a HIPAA violation because she threw a document with Protected Health Information into a regular trash container rather than the required shredder container.
The nurse stated her former employer could not prove private information had been “compromised.” She said such violations go on all the time and feels nurses are “underdogs” and always suffer consequences for a breach, while other healthcare providers don’t.
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