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Activity 1.3.2: Student Response Sheet Scenario 1A 32 year old immigrant from a patriarchal country is giving birth. As she is delivering the baby, she tearfully confesses to her doctor that this is her 4th child and she simply cannot handle any more children. She tells the doctor that her husband refuses to use contraception or allow her to, and she begs her doctor to tie her tubes and not tell her husband. The doctor complies.Was HIPAA Violated? Why or why not?Okay HIPAA was not violated unless the doctor told the husband.Scenario 2A physical therapist and a nurse are riding in the elevator together. During their ride they loudly discuss a patient they both have had for some time now. The elevator is full of people who can all hear them refer to the patient by name.Was HIPAA Violated? Why or why not?NO WAY!! This is violating HIPAA by talking about a patient so that people can hear violating the patients privacy rights.Scenario 3A mother emailed her son’s teacher about his history of seizures. Months later, the teacher replied to the email to tell the mother about discipline problems. Communication eventually became very hostile. The teacher forwarded the conversation to her best friend, a teacher at the same school. The teacher’s friend does not have this boy in her class. The information about the boy’s seizures was at the very bottom of the email strand.Was HIPAA Violated? Why or why not?NO WAYY!! HIPPA was violated because teachers that don’t have a student in their class don’t need to know about their problems.Scenario 4A 33 year old woman visited her doctor for a routine check-up. The doctor called back a week later to report the lab results. The husband answered the phone, and the doctor shared the results with the husband.Was HIPAA Violated? Why or why not?OKAY ONLY IF!! The wife signed a form saying that her husband can see the her medical information.Scenario 5A teacher decides that he needs to attend an in-patient drug rehabilitation program. He tells his employer that he needs time off for medical reasons. The employer requires a FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act) form from the employee’s doctor. The doctor fills it out, including information about the patient’s history with drug use.Was HIPAA Violated? Why or why not?OKAY AS soon as you get an FMLA form your employer gets all of your medical history up to that date.Scenario 6Two nurses are shopping together after work. As they walk around, they talk about their patient Barbara. Although she’s in the hospital for diabetes treatment, they discuss the fact that her crazy “bug-eyes” means she probably has an overactive thyroid (Graves’ disease). They wonder aloud whether to tell Barbara their suspicions.Was HIPAA Violated? Why or why not?Okay It didn’t say that they were using her name and if the patient is having something else wrong with her the patient should know.Scenario 7Two doctors are having a private lunch together in the physician dining room, which is empty. As they eat they talk about the man with the terrible abscesses that they recently treated. They joke about how bad they smelled and about the fact that the juice that squirted out when they punctured one of the abscesses hit the nurse right in the face.Was HIPAA Violated? Why or why not?Okay As long as no one heard them and they were in total privacy.Scenario 8A 14-year-old freshman is pregnant and visits her OB/GYN. Her mother comes with her and comes into the doctor’s office for the visit. She asks the doctor many questions about the due date, the heart rate of the baby, methods of delivery, genetic risks, etc. The doctor answers all of the mother’s questions.Was HIPAA Violated? Why or why not?Okay You don’t qualify for HIPAA until you’re 18Scenario 9At the age of 35, Anna Garcia is diagnosed with the H1N1 flu (also known as the swine flu). She is hospitalized with severe symptoms but recovered with no problems. Her doctor reports her illness to the local department of public health.Was HIPAA Violated? Why or why not?Okay Doctors must report these type of intenses incase of a backout or pandemic. ................
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