If it doesn't pertain to your job, don't peek

In response to "Houston hospital workers fired for HIPAA violations":

We have been told repeatedly if it doesn't pertain to your job right now, then you shouldn't look at the records. If those 16 people violated hospital policy they were rightly terminated.

Peggy Riley, R.N.

Nurse manager ICU/CCU/PCCUGrady Memorial HospitalChickasha, Okla.

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