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🔐 HIPAA – “Don’t Be Slippin’ with the Info!”

💡 HIPAA = Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act
Made to protect patient secrets like it's top-tier gossip! 🤫

📋 Rules You Gotta Know:

• 🟢 Privacy Rule – Don’t spill the tea!

  • Protect personal info

  • Only share with need-to-know peeps

  • Always get consent ✍

• 🔴 Security Rule – Guard that digital vault!

  • Use passwords, encryption 🔐

  • Keep charts and records locked down

• 🟡 Enforcement Rule – If it goes down, speak up!

  • Report any shady stuff 💬

  • You still responsible even if you didn’t do it directly 😬

🧠 Unique Identifiers = “One-of-a-kind” stuff

• Full name 👩🏽‍⚕️

• DOB 🎂

• SSN 🧾

• Med record number 🏥

• Reason for care 🩹

✍ Informed Consent – “Don’t Do Nothin’ 'Til They Sign!”

💼 Provider’s Job:

• Explain everything (risks, benefits, recovery) like you're breaking down a contract 🔍

• Answer ALL questions – before and after

👩🏽‍⚕️ Nurse’s Job:

• Be the hype girl… but not the main speaker

• You can clarify, NOT explain

• Be a witness 🧾

• Can’t add or subtract info (we don’t play remix with consent)

🚫 Not valid when...

• They high 🍃, drunk 🍷, or confused 😵

🧾 Advanced Directives – “My Care, My Way 💁🏽‍♀️”

Legal docs for when the pt can’t speak for themselves.

🧠 Nursing Tip: Use C.A.R.E.

• Communicate with pt & fam

• Assess & understand

• Respect their wishes

• Educate the fam

📌 Types:

• Living Will = Specific “yes or no” for treatments

• DPOA = Your trusted decision-maker 👯‍♀

💖 Preferences may include:

• DNR 💔

• Comfort only

• Intubation or not

• Feeding tubes, etc.

🧍‍♀ Scope of Practice – “Know Your Lane!”

👑 RN = The Boss Level Nurse

Use acronym CAPE:

• Care planning 🧠

• Administer meds 💊

• Perform sterile stuff 🧼

• Educate & lead 👩🏽‍🏫
  🧠 Handles unstable patients!

💪 LPN/LVN = The Real One on the Floor

Use acronym TAPE 'N CAMS:

• Tubes

• Administer meds

• Procedures (simple)

• Eval lung/bowel sounds

• Neuro checks

• Collaborate

• Administer fluids

• Monitor vitals

• Suction if needed

💉 Works with stable patients!

🙋🏽‍♀️ UAP = The Backbone

Use acronym C.A.R.E.D.:

• Care plans follow-through

• Assist with ADLs (bathin’, walkin’, cleanin’ 🧼🚿)

• Report changes

• Environment safe

• Deliver basic care

🚫 No meds, no education, no charting assessments!

🤝 Delegation – “It’s Giving... Teamwork”

Delegation = Give them the task, but you STILL on the hook! 🎣

✅ Use the 5 Rights (Mnemonic: Clever People Seem Tough Communicators)

1. Right Circumstance – Is the situation safe?

2. Right Person – Are they trained?

3. Right Task – Is it within their role?

4. Right Direction/Communication – Be clear and bossy 📢

5. Right Supervision/Eval – Follow up! Check in! 👀

🛑 Nursing DO NOTs – “Just Don’t... Please!”

• ❌ Talk about pt info in public

• ❌ Use your phone to record anything

• ❌ Leave charts open

• ❌ Gossip with your work bestie

• ❌ Share info with unauthorized family/friends

💬 If it ain’t authorized, keep it locked!