HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care

Prepare an interprofessional staff update on HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care. This assignment will require you to develop a staff update for an interprofessional team to encourage team members to protect the privacy, confidentiality, and security of patient information. For this assignment, you will prepare a two-page interprofessional staff update on HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care. Select only one of the settings below that will become the focus of your interprofessional staff update: Skilled Nursing Facility: o Context: Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) provide therapeutic services, rehabilitation, and continuous nursing care for patients who aren’t in an acute phase of illness but still require specialized care. Residents often stay for extended periods, and there’s a close-knit community feel. o Social Media Concern: Sharing moments from daily activities, therapies, or resident interactions can breach patient privacy, even if done with the best intentions. Mental Health and Rehabilitation Centers: o Context: These centers cater to individuals with mental health issues or those undergoing rehabilitation for substance abuse. The stigma associated with mental health and addiction makes privacy paramount. o Social Media Concern: Discussing patient progress, sharing stories, or even describing daily challenges can lead to unintentional disclosure of sensitive patient information. Preparation: Search the Internet for infographics about protecting PHI. These infographics should serve as examples of how to succinctly summarize evidence-based information about protecting the security, privacy, and confidentiality of patient data. Analyze the 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, as the focus of your interprofessional staff update: o Social media best practices. o What not to do: social media. o Social media risks to patient information. o Steps to take if a breach occurs. Scenario: In this assignment, imagine you are a nurse in one of the health care settings below: Skilled Nursing Facility Mental Health and Rehabilitation Centers Before your shift begins, you scroll through Facebook and notice that a coworker has posted a photo of herself and a patient on Facebook and described how happy she is that her patient is making great progress. 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. Instructions: First, select only one of the health care settings below: Skilled Nursing Facility. Mental Health and Rehabilitation Centers. As a nurse in this setting, you are asked to create the content for a staff update. This staff update will be delivered using your organization’s internal communication platform and should be in the form of a social media post and should address one or more of these topics: Social media best practices. What not. to do: social media. Social media risks to patient information. Steps to take if a breach occurs. This assessment is not a traditional essay. It is a staff educational update about PHI. Staff are frequently overwhelmed with required trainings and often click through without learning. To catch the attention of your audience be creative. Create a social media post that delivers the information required in an easy-to-read fashion like an infographic where you use your creativity to make the staff update fun and engaging. 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)? o Be sure to include essential HIPAA information. What are privacy, security, and confidentiality? o Describe and provide examples of privacy, security, and confidentiality concerns related to the use of technology in health care. o 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: o What are some examples of nurses being terminated for inappropriate social media use in the United States? o What types of sanctions have health care organizations imposed on interdisciplinary team members who have violated social media policies? o What have been the financial penalties assessed against health care organizations for inappropriate social media use? o 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 Be selective about the content you choose to include. Include need-to-know information. Omit nice-to-know information. 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/view. 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-peer-reviewed 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 12 current, non-peer-reviewed in-text citations and references (total of 35 resources) that support the staff update’s content. Current means no older than 5 years. APA format: Be sure your citations and references adhere to APA format. Please also refer to the attached rubric.