I am a home care nurse and recently returned to work after recovering from an injury. My first assignment required me to lift and carry a patient outside the home for which I would not be covered as it is against policy. I refused and my supervisor told the patient's mother that I would not do it...

I work in a group home for the disabled in pa recently one of our residents fell and I took her blood pressure on an automatic blood pressure cuff, and it was high, I called a relative to come anf it take it to get a more accurate reading, there was no personal info exchanged and the person was...

If someone violated probation while a home search was being done and something was found and they were arrested, do they still have to read miranda rights to them? Can they look in someone's pocketbook at the home of someone else who they are checking on if you are both on probation but the person...

I am the Supervisor of a POL. One of the employees of the X-Ray department asked me for a copy of her Mother's lab results. I refused, citing HIPAA regulations. The employee became very disruptive but I still refused to comply with her request. Because our facility has no clear protocol for...

I work at a Health care facility and also at the hospital on temporary basis. I sent a resident to the hospital and was concerned about the resident and I have access to the patient records with my computer so I looked up his lab and doctors note to better care for the resident when he returned to...