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Please remember to choose the ethical provision you believe would address the issue and remember your citations. A group of senior students have been attending nursing school together since the beginning and are friends with one another on social media. After a particularly tough day at clinical, one of the students begins to rant about the instructor, the clinical site, and the dreadful patient assignment the student had. The student even names the nurse assigned to the patient and the name of the hospital. What should the fellow students do who are classmates and on this social media site with this student?
According to the HIPAA, all organizations need to have and follow social media guidelines to help ensure compliance with HIPAA rules. The department of Health and Human Services' office for civil rights has published social media rules on HIPAA and have enlisted various aspects of HIPAA that apply to social media networks.