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Apr 28, 2009 1:09 pm US/Central
Nursing Home Employee Fired Over Facebook Photos
WATERTOWN, Minn. (WCCO) ―
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Authorities were called to investigate photos posted on the page of a nursing assistant at the Watertown, Minn. facility.
CBS
A nursing home employee was fired after the Minnesota Department of Health investigated inappropriate photographs posted on Facebook.
According to findings released by the MDH, authorities were called to investigate photos posted on the page of a nursing assistant at the Watertown, Minn. facility.
While the investigation was originally mounted in response to the allegation that the employee had posted nude photographs of residents, no evidence that would substantiate such claims was uncovered.
The employee did, however, post an unauthorized photo of herself posing with a clothed resident on her Facebook page, which the MDH found in violation of the patient's privacy rights.
The MDH also found other photos of the employee hanging upside-down off the loading dock railing and posing in other unsafe and unprofessional situations.
The employee was fired and other employees that had been involved in the Facebook photo album were re-education about patients' privacy rights.
The MDH did not issue any state licensing orders in the incident.
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