The nurse who is not assigned to care for the patient can access the patient's electronic health record in which circumstance?
a. The patient is the nurse's son in the emergency department and has pending lab results.
b. The nurse had previously provided care to the patient during past hospitalizations.
c. The nurse is reporting lab results to the Code Blue team during resuscitation.
d. The patient is the nurse's neighbor who asks the nurse to review the chart.
C
Although not directly assigned to the patient's care, the nurse is participating on the team providing emergency resuscitative care when relaying information from the patient's health record. In order to gain access to the patient's health information, regardless of her employment at the hospital where the patient was receiving care, the nurse would need to sign the HIPPA releases, just as any parent would need to do. While the nurse may have provided healthcare to the patient in the past, the nurse does not have permission to access the patient's records on the current admission if not assigned to provide care. Although the patient gave verbal permission to access of the records, the permission is not in writing and would be unauthorized access.
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