A Florida nurse was fired after posting a photo of a baby born with a birth defect on social media, according to hospital officials.
Officials at the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami first learned of the incident on September 8. Hospital spokesman Lydia Amoretti told NBC News by email on Saturday.
Sierra Samuels, a nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit, shared a photo of a newborn baby with a gastroschisis (a congenital defect in the abdominal wall that causes the baby’s intestines to stick out of the body) on her personal social media account. ..
Hospital officials immediately took Samuels off work until an investigation into privacy breaches was conducted, Amoretti said. After that, Samuels quit his job at the hospital on September 15.
Posting patient photos without permission is often a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which aims to protect people’s medical records and other personal health information. Is considered.
The photo that Samuels shared on social media had the caption, “My night was going well, so it was a boom!”And, according to “Your intestines posed to be inside the baby, not outside! #Gastroschisis” WFOR-TV that first reported the story..