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Can nurses tell stories about patients?

Can nurses tell stories about patients?

Nurses today are bound by strict HIPAA privacy and security rules (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996). They can be strictly sanctioned, and even lose their jobs if they violate these rules which help protect the privacy of individuals’ medical records and other personal health information.

Can you tell a story about a patient?

If writing about patients has ancient roots, however, so does the imperative to protect their privacy. The law has bolstered patient privacy, but it has also cast a shadow over most interactions physicians have with their patients, from maintaining their records to telling their stories.

Can nurses tell scary hospital stories?

Being so close to death and patients passing on, nurses can tell the most amazing scary hospital stories. Nurses have at least one spooky encounter of the supernatural kind.

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Are there any stories about doctor/patient interactions that are too funny?

From hilariously misinformed patients to doctors with a wickedly dry sense of humor, we at Bored Panda had compiled a list of short stories when doctor/patient interactions were just too funny.

How do you ask a nurse about his or her worst patient?

Ask a nurse about his or her worst patient and they probably won’t tell you much. But give them an anonymous thread on the internet and they’ll spill all their strangest, saddest and funniest stories. We’ve scoured Tumblr and Reddit to bring you the best of the best (or worst?) patients.

Why did the nurse look out the window in the hospital?

According to their stories, the nurse never looked at them but silently rocked while looking out the window. It was supposedly a nun who worked in the hospital during the war and the window she looked out of frequently was overlooking the old cemetery in the hospital grounds.