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Guidelines for Nurses Using Social Media
Nancy Spector, PhD, RNDirector, Regulatory Innovations
August 16, 2011University of Chicago Medical Center
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Mission of NCSBN
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) provides education,
service and research through collaborative leadership to promote
evidence-based regulatory excellence for patient safety and public protection.
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Objectives Discuss the professional, ethical, and
legal implications of using social media inappropriately.
Explain common myths and misunderstandings.
Describe guidelines for the appropriate use of social media.
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Background: Changing Times
Blogs Twitter Social networking Cell phone cameras Posts on forums Skype Etc!
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The Extent of Social Media
More than 110 billion minutes on social networks and blog sites per month.
More than 22 percent of all online
time. Facebook boasts more than 500
million members. 38 million business people from
more than 200 countries have joined LinkedIn.
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Changing Times in Nursing
Headlines:
“Nurses Fired Over Cell Phone Photos of Patient”
ER nurses took photos of an object lodged in her patient’s rectum…
And posted it on her Facebook page!
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Changing Times in NursingHeadlines:
“Disclosure: The New Closure?” (Chicago Tribune article)
“…my sister, fresh from a tenure in Australia, shared with me the distasteful behavior of her nursing colleagues who spend their breaks offering family and cyber cohorts a snapshot of a stressful shift, complete with the evening’s death tolls, diagnoses and patient demographics.”
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Changing Times in Nursing
Headlines:
“State Gives Kitsap Health & Rehab a Deadline After Nude Photos Incident”
LPN and two CNAs were fired for taking nude photos of nursing home residents.
The facility could lose its Medicare/Medicaid reimbursements.
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Changing Times in Nursing
Headlines:
“Tweeting – Not Just for the Birds” (Richard Hader, 2009, Nursing Management)
“I recently had a staff member bring me a copy of a social blog in which a nurse had detailed types of patients for whom she had cared during the last shift she worked…”
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Changing Times in Nursing
Headlines:
“Nurses Snapped Photos of Dying man and Posted on Their Facebooks”
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Changing Times in Nursing
Headlines:
“Nurses' jobs at risk for allegedly posting patient information on Facebook”
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Changing Times in Nursing
Headlines:
“Hospital Worker Fired over Facebook Comments about Patient”:
- “I hope he rots in Hell!”
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Changing Times in Nursing
Headlines:
“Student Expelled for Posting Photos of Placenta on Her Facebook.”
- Wall Street JournalSubsequent court case
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Positive Uses of Social Media
Pew Report on the Future of Online Socializing (n=895 technology stakeholders and critics): 85% agreed that the Internet has been a
positive force on their social world Example comments:
“Geography no longer an issue”
“Costs less to communicate”
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Examples in Health Care
As of May, 2011, 965 U.S. hospitals were using social networking.
National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists – LinkedIn.
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Examples in Health Care
Smart phones for downloading information, contacting nurses at work, etc.
Surgeons use of Twitter in double-hand transplant case
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NCSBN’s White Paper on Guidelines
Disciplinary Resources Committee Charge:
Develop guidelines for social and electronic media to protect patient privacy.
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Process
Reviewed the literature Surveyed Boards Accessed others’ guidelines Took middle ground approach Approved by Board of Directors in May,
2011 To collaborate with other organizations
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Survey Results
33 of 46 Boards reporting had complaints 26 took disciplinary actions Board actions:
Letters of concernCensuring the nurseConditions on the licenseSuspending the license
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Other U.S. Organizations
ANA revising their code of ethics
Sigma Theta Tau recently published a book
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An International Experience
Report of study out of Canada (JNR, 2011)
UK: Royal College of Nursing has published legal advice
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Privacy Issues
Defined: Right of a person to be free from intrusion into matters of a personal nature.
• Treating patients with dignity and respect.
• Posting about patients.• Can be intentional or unintentional
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Confidentiality
Differs from privacy; deals with unauthorized access to data.
• Patient charts• Can be shared with patient consent or
by legal requirements
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HIPAA Violations
HIPAA Standards in 1996 (federal)
Protects privacy and confidentiality
Examples posting photos on Facebook
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Other Consequences
Civil penalties – finesDefamation of characterInvasion of privacyHarrassment
Criminal penalities – jail time
Employer - fired
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Effect on Team-Based Care
Lateral violence
Cyber bullying
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Still being determined:
Labor laws
First Amendment rights to free speech
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Common Myths
Communication is accessible only by the intended recipients.
Content that can be deleted is no longer accessible.
Disclosing private or confidential information is harmless if only accessed by the intended recipient.
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Common Myths
De-identifying patients is acceptable. Confusion between patient’s right
to disclose and the need for
nurses to refrain from disclosing. Blur of nurse’s personal and
professional life.
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Guidelines
1. Recognize obligation to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
2. Don’t disseminate information that will degrade or embarrass the patient.
3.Don’t transmit patient related information.
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Guidelines
4. Do not post information that could reasonably identify the patient.
5. Do not refer to patients in a disparaging manner.
6.Do not take photos or videos of patients, unless authorized.
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Guidelines
7.Maintain professional boundaries.
8.Consult employer policies.
9.Report breaches of confidentiality or privacy.
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Guidelines
10. Be aware of employer policies on the use of computers, cameras, etc.
11. Do not post disparaging remarks about coworkers.
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Case # 1
Photo of vulnerable patient
Showed photo to former employee
Employer found out – was terminated
Board: disciplinary action requiring CE
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Case #2
Strange email at work – patient with exposed backside
Photo went through organization
Prosecutor, Board and national media involved!
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Case #3
Student took photo of pediatric patient
Posted on her Facebook
Student expelled; hospital faces HIPAA investigation; nursing program cannot use the pediatric hospital
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Case #4
Blogging on local newspaper
“Little Handicapper”
Board issued a warning
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Case #5
Student group on Facebook
Clinical error discussed
Students faced expulsion and discipline
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Case #6
Texting orders at party
Read aloud to wife, “Get a drug screen for Edward Smith”
Board issued warning to the nurse and the system
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Case #7
Hospital sponsored communication page for hospice
“Hopefully the new happy pill will help, along with the additional morphine”
Self reported to Board – case in progress
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Guidelines in October 2011 Issue
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Questions?
www.ncsbn.org
Thank you!