what would you do #1

So I know that the nurse was really wrong in telling her daughter what I was saying while under sedation. My question is I spoke with my boss and human resources and explained to them I dont remember saying anything because I was under sedation and that with my position and trust I would never talk about confidential company issues. They agreed but I still was told not to talk about things outside of work, no papers were filled out and they said nothing would go in my file. This is where I dont know what to do should I trust them at their word, will any of this come back to haunt me in my future? I asked for some documentation today ( I retained a lawyer) so that I could give it to my lawyer I was ripped a new one the human resource mgr told me that there wasnt any documentation and even if there was he did not have to give it to anyone. Then he continued to tell me that there was not any formal complaint about me so there was no paperwork and to just let it go.

This really did happen this week actually

Thanks for any guidence (Security is a major part of what I do I dont know if this will affect me in the future with my pursuit of security I only blabbed under sedation other which I dont remeber any of.

I really don't know if I have anything comforting or knowledgeable to say on this one really.

I, personally, would keep the lawyer in reserve in case there was an issue after you terminated the relationship with that employer, (or vice-versa), sothat you could press suit to review your records which should be available to you at your request by law at any time. (the problem there is that you can request them and yes, they must let you review them, but you don't want to tick them off by requesting them while you are still employed there).

Unfortunately, you just got caught in a game of political chess as a pawn that was probably told to monitor communications but then got used as a scapegoat when the monitored person found out. Instead of telling that person that they had policy and ordered you to do such they instead likely just said you must have done it on your own to save face.

I do wonder, though, if you may have a suit against the mother or hospital for divulging personal medical information since this occured while you were in the hospital's care and is as such a medical matter of sorts since you were sedated and should be confidential. shaky there though.

I don't envy you... Good luck!

Beware of those here that would insist that you never have to fear your employer and should trust the company, those are employers themselves talking.

I think you are handling it about the best that you could do under the circumstances. The RN at the hospital is probably the prime suspect (she has motive), but proving that may be tough.

I had a similar problem many years ago when I was in the military and in charge of some highly classified material. Because of pager duty, I was rather sleep deprived and was talking occasionally in my sleep. My wife use to laugh at me and she would write down the numbers I said in my sleep. I then would check the numbers in the morning against the 9 combinations that I had memorized (I had one combination change a week on average). I never mentioned a current combination in my sleep, but it was enough to scare me. Fortunately, my wife never turned me in.

I would suggest following your lawyer's advice on this one. If you have a strong enough case: sue. If nothing else, it will get the hospital to clamp down on employees talking out of turn.

By-the-way, under the new HIPAA rules (not yet enforcible) the nurse would have been in trouble just for mentioning that you were even a patient. Talk about some people who are going to have to learn to shut up.