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Assessment 2 Instructions: Protected Health Information (PHI):
Privacy, Security, and Confidentiality Best Practices
Prepare a 2-page interprofessional staff update on HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care.
As you begin to consider the assessment, it would be an excellent choice to complete the Breach of Protected
Health Information (PHI) activity. The will support your success with the assessment by creating the opportunity for
you to test your knowledge of potential privacy, security, and confidentiality violations of protected health
information. The activity is not graded and counts towards course engagement.
Health professionals today are increasingly accountable for the use of protected health information (PHI). Various
government and regulatory agencies promote and support privacy and security through a variety of activities.
Examples include:
Meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR).
Provision of EHR incentive programs through Medicare and Medicaid.
Enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules.
Release of educational resources and tools to help providers and hospitals address privacy, security, and
confidentiality risks in their practices.
Technological advances, such as the use of social media platforms and applications for patient progress tracking and
communication, have provided more access to health information and improved communication between care
providers and patients.
At the same time, advances such as these have resulted in more risk for protecting PHI. Nurses typically receive
annual training on protecting patient information in their everyday practice. This training usually emphasizes privacy,
security, and confidentiality best practices such as:
Keeping passwords secure.
Logging out of public computers.
Sharing patient information only with those directly providing care or who have been granted permission to
receive this information.
Today, one of the major risks associated with privacy and confidentiality of patient identity and data relates to social
media. Many nurses and other health care providers place themselves at risk when they use social media or other
electronic communication systems inappropriately. For example, a Texas nurse was recently terminated for posting
patient vaccination information on Facebook. In another case, a New York nurse was terminated for posting an
insensitive emergency department photo on her Instagram account.
Health care providers today must develop their skills in mitigating risks to their patients and themselves related to
patient information. At the same time, they need to be able distinguish between effective and ineffective uses of
social media in health care.
This assessment will require you to develop a staff update for the interprofessional team to encourage team
members to protect the privacy, confidentiality, and security of patient information.
Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies
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through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Describe nurses’ and the interdisciplinary team’s role in informatics with a focus on electronic
health information and patient care technology to support decision making.
Describe the security, privacy, and confidentially laws related to protecting sensitive electronic health
information that govern the interdisciplinary team.
Explain the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to safeguard sensitive electronic health
information.
Competency 2: to effectively manage protected health information.
to mitigate risks to patients and health care staff related to
sensitive electronic health information.
Develop a professional, effective staff update that educates interprofessional team members about
protecting the security, privacy, and confidentiality of patient data, particularly as it pertains to social
media usage.
Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication to facilitate use of health information and patient
care technologies.
Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references.
Create a clear, concise, well-organized, and professional staff update that is generally free from errors
in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Preparation
To successfully prepare to complete this assessment, complete the following:
Review the infographics on protecting PHI provided in the resources for this assessment, or find other
infographics to review. These infographics serve as examples of how to succinctly summarize evidence-based
information.
Analyze these infographics and distill them into five or six principles of what makes them effective. As
you design your interprofessional staff update, apply these principles. Note: In a staff update, you will
not have all the images and graphics that an infographic might contain. Instead, focus your analysis on
what makes the messaging effective.
Select from any of the following options, or a combination of options, the focus of your interprofessional staff
update:
Social media best practices.
What not to do: social media.
Social media risks to patient information.
Steps to take if a breach occurs.
Conduct independent research on the topic you have selected in addition to reviewing the suggested
resources for this assessment. This information will serve as the source(s) of the information contained in your
interprofessional staff update. Consult the BSN Program Library Research Guide for help in identifying
scholarly and/or authoritative sources.
Instructions
In this assessment, assume you are a nurse in an acute care, community, school, nursing home, or other health care
setting. Before your shift begins, you scroll through Facebook and notice that a coworker has posted a photo of
herself and a patient on Facebook. The post states, “I am so happy Jane is feeling better. She is just the best patient
Ive ever had, and I am excited that she is on the road to recovery.”
You have recently completed your annual continuing education requirements at work and realize this is a breach of
your organization’s social media policy. Your organization requires employees to immediately report such breaches
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to the privacy officer to ensure the post is removed immediately and that the nurse responsible receives appropriate
corrective action. You follow appropriate organizational protocols and report the breach to the privacy officer. The privacy officer takes
swift action to remove the post. Due to the severity of the breach, the organization terminates the nurse.
Based on this incident’s severity, your organization has established a task force with two main goals:
Educate staff on HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care.
Prevent confidentiality, security, and privacy breaches.
The task force has been charged with creating a series of interprofessional staff updates on the following topics:
Social media best practices.
What not to do: Social media.
Social media risks to patient information.
Steps to take if a breach occurs.
You are asked to select one or more of the topics and create the content for a staff update containing a maximum of
two content pages. This assessment is not an essay. It is a Staff Update about PHI.
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?
Define and provide examples of privacy, security, and confidentiality concerns related to the use of the
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:
How many nurses have been 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
Your staff update is limited to two double-spaced content pages. Be selective about the content you choose
to include in your update so you can meet the page length requirement. .
.
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. 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-peerreviewed resources (for a total of 35 resources) to support the staff update content.
Additional Requirements
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.
Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12-point.
Citations and references: Provide a separate reference page that includes 23 current, peer-reviewed and 1
2 current, and references (total of 35 resources) that support the staff
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update’s content. Current mean no older than 5 years.
APA format: Be sure your citations and references adhere to APA format. Consult the Evidence and APA
page for an APA refresher.
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