Privacy questions from practicing school nurses.
This Question and Answer (Q&A) article addresses practice issues related to school health records and school nursing documentation that were posed by school nurses in the field. Specifically, the questions addressed concern the following: education records, medication privacy issues, sharing of sensitive health information, privacy of individual student logs, use of record access logs, and the use of spreadsheets and home computers for creating student records. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Family Educational Records and Privacy Act (FERPA), and other laws are addressed as appropriate.
College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Martha Dewey
MD
Bergren
D003219:Confidentiality; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006801:Humans; D009737:Nursing Records; D012573:School Nursing; D014481:United States