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Asked May 28, 2008, 07:27 AM — 1 Answer
I work in a rural hospital. We have a five cubical bed progressive care unit. When we do assessments in this unit we will take one patient at a time or do other patients in another room across the hall. Recently our manager is trying for us to do lab, x-ray, and EKG along with the assessment inside the progressive care unit while doing other patients too. Some of our patients are very hard of hearing and we have to raise our voices so that they can understand us.
My question is, is this a hippa violation for us to be assessing and asking personal questions about there health and telling them their diagnosis while there are other patients in the same unit?

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Jun 23, 2008, 09:54 PM
Probably not if you make sure to only use their first or last name not both and speak in general terms is abnormalities,They will have to discuss results further w/their doctor.
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