I am a nurse and I recently had a serious illness that required emergency admittance and surgery. I was admitted to my previous hospital employer. I was on the surigal wing which was the appropriate place but after 2 days my old nurse manager showed up and said she just realized I was on the floor and was having me transferred not only off the floor but completely out of the building. She ask if that was OK and I said no but she said that it was already done and I couldn't do anything about it. My physician asked me later why they did it and I really didn't have an answer for him and frankly I wonder if it wasn't a violation of my HIPAA rights. Was a previous nursing supervisor within her rights to access my medical records and have me moved?

The current nursing supervisor ( may be your old boss but would still be the supervisor there) unless she left that hospital

They may have concern over a formal employee as a patient there. I can not see where it would be a problem, but if they felt it was, the hospital unless it is life threatening can ask for you to be treated somewhere else.

If she was still workig for that hospital, se was not a prevoius nursing supervisor but the current one and have access to your records as part of her job.