An emergency room nurse at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City was fired earlier this month after posting a picture of an empty trauma room on Instagram, according to an ABC news report.
Katie Duke, RN, posted a photo on Instagram of the room in which a man was treated after being hit by a New York City subway train with the caption "#Man vs 6 train," according to the report.
After seven years as an emergency department nurse, Ms. Duke was fired. Her supervisors said she had not breached hospital policy or violated HIPAA, rather she was fired "for being insensitive," she said in the report.
Additionally, Ms. Duke said in the report the photo was not hers and that she had reposted it from a physician's Instagram page. The physician, she said in the report, was not punished.
Social media has also been at the base of another posting scandal earlier this year when a hospital employee at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center allegedly posted a screenshot of a patient's medical record on Facebook. The hospital is now being sued by the patient.
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