Musings of a Physio Student

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The Nerdy Nurse blogging about HIPAA.

Things to avoid if you blog about medicine.

Can I Blog About My Patients?

“You can absolutely blog about specific patient encounters, but you have a duty to be respectful of the patients privacy. They allowed you to participate in their care and they deserve the utmost respect from that. However, if telling a story can be educational and informative, you can write about your individual experiences in providing patient care. You can actually include quite a bit of detail in your nursing or healthcare narratives about patient encounters and experiences. The key is to make sure that the details are never specific enough to tie back to any individual patient. It is also a good idea to change certain details of the story completely so that a patient is absolutely unidentifiable. You can have fun with this and make for a much more entertaining read. You aren’t writing research articles. In blogging the details are not as important as telling the story anyways.”