Winnie said,

> Another concern with handling phone calls at home:  HIPPA again!  We
> had suggested we could do some phone calls from home and keep track
> of the time involved to put on our time cards.  We were told that
> this would be a concern because we would have patient information
> written down at home and in transit when taking it back to work to
> record and this would be a violation!  (I'm a little tired of being
> up to our hips in HIPPA!)
>
Home care nurses have info in transit ALL the time.  So that isn't an issue.
If you are leaving the information where others can have access to it, that
may be a problem.  But if you are taking it from your home to the hospital --
I don't see that it is any different from a home care nurse going home after
her last home visit, and then taking the information back to the home care
office the next day.  And I have information about patients in my home care
office....



Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC
Lactation Education Consultants, Wheaton IL
www.lactationeducationconsultants.com

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