A colleague asks you to give her your password access so that she ...

[mrsjacobs44]

A colleague asks you to give her your password access so that she can view her partner's healthcare record. This request violates the patient's right to:
 
  a. Privacy.
  b. Confidentiality.
  c. Undue authorization of treatment.
  d. Protection against slander.

Question 2

One means of ensuring that nurses floated to other patient care areas in healthcare organizations are qualified to work in those areas is:
 
  a. Employing additional staff to assist with orientation processes.
  b. Cross-educating staff members to other areas of the institution.
  c. Transferring patients to units where the staffing pattern is optimal.
  d. Orienting staff members to all patient care areas as part of their general orientation to the institution.

[ebenov]

Answer to Question 1

ANS: A
Privacy refers to the right to protection against unreasonable and unwarranted interference with the patient's solitude. Privacy standards limit how personal health information may be used or shared and mandate safeguards for the protection of health information. Institutions can reduce potential liability in this area by allowing access to patient data, either written or oral, only to those with a need to know. Persons with a need to know include physicians and nurses caring for the patient, technicians, unit clerks, therapists, social service workers, and patient advocates. Others wishing to access patient data must first ask the patient for permission to review a record.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
Nurses should be floated to units as similar as possible to their own to decrease the potential for liability. Negotiating cross-training, a proactive approach to temporary staffing problems, reduces the potential for liability.