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 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: Implement evidence-based strategies to effectively manage
protected health information. Identify evidence-based approaches 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 I’ve 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 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