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The story raises questions about social media use, HIPAA, bias against doctors and nurses, and hospital firing practices. An emergency room (ER) nurse in New York has been fired after posting a photo of an empty trauma room after clinicians saved the life of a man hit by a subway. The nurse admitted she reposted the photo from one of the doctor's Instagram pages. The doctor was not reprimanded or disciplined. While the incident underscores the importance of caution when posting comments and images on social media, it also raises concerns about why, in an era of transparency, empty trauma rooms after major events are difficult public. The nurse said hospital officials acknowledged the photo did not violate HIPAA privacy rules or the organization's social media policy, but fired her for posting it as insensitive. She posted the picture with the caption "#Man vs 6 train". The nurse had worked in the hospital for six years before the incident. She decided to post the photo because it was a "moving and powerful photo." "It's just a very sincere intention ... to want people to see what's going on in the ER from the perspective of an ER nurse," she said.

(This is a real life event retrieved from Fierce Healthcare and ABC News)

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• Check out the postings in the Week 9 folder on social media. NCSBN white paper based on social media usage: https://www.ncsbn.org/public-files/NCSBN_SocialMedia.pdf 
• ethical principles including
  Advocacy The act of supporting, speaking for, defending, or interceding on behalf of
  another.
  Autonomy An ethical principle that literally means self-governing. It denotes having the
  freedom to make independent choices.
  Benefit The ethical principle that requires one to act in ways that benefit another.
  research, this implies the protection from harm and discomfort, including a
  balance between the benefits and risks of a study.
  Confidentiality The ethical principle that requires nondisclosure of private or secret
  information with which one is entrusted. In research, confidentiality refers to
  the researcher's assurance to participants that information provided will not be
  made public or available to anyone other than those involved in the research
  process without the participant's consent.
  Distributive
  justice
  Application of the ethical principle of justice that relates to fair, equitable, and
  Appropriate distribution in society, determined by justified norms that structure
  the terms of social cooperation. Its scope includes policies that allot diverse -
  benefits and burdens such as property, resources, taxation, privileges, and
  opportunities.
  Ethical
  principles
  Basic and obvious moral truths that guide deliberation and action. Major ethical
  principles include autonomy, benefit, nonmaleficence, veracity,
  confidentiality, justice, fidelity, and others.
  Fidelity An ethical principle related to the concept of faithfulness and the practice of
  promise keeping.
  Informed
  consent
  A process by which patients are informed of the possible outcomes,
  alternatives, and risks of treatments and are required to give their consent
  freely. This implies legal protection of a patient's right to personal autonomy by
  providing the opportunity to choose a course of action regarding plans for
  health care, including the right to refuse medical recommendations and to
  choose from available therapeutic alternatives. In research, this refers to
  consent to participate in a research study after the research purpose, expected
  commitment, risks and benefits, any invasion of privacy, and ways that
  anonymity and confidentiality will be addressed have been explained.
  Justice An ethical principle that relates to fair, equitable, and appropriate treatment in
  light of what is due or owed to persons, recognizing that giving to some will
  deny receipt to others who might otherwise have received these things. In
  research, justice implies the rights of fair treatment and privacy, including
  anonymity and confidentiality.
  Noncompliance Denoting an unwillingness on the part of the patient to participate in health care
  activities that have been recommended by health care providers.
  Nonmaleficence An ethical principle related to benefit that requires one to act in such a
  manner as to avoid causing harm to another, including deliberate harm, risk of
  harm, and harm that occurs during the performance of beneficial acts.
  Paternalism A gender-biased term that literally means acting in a fatherly manner, the
  traditional view of which implies well-intended actions of benevolent decision
  making, leadership, protection, and discipline that, in the health care arena,
  manifest in the making of decisions on behalf of patients without their full
  consent or knowledge.
  Principles Basic and obvious truths that guide deliberation and action.
  Privacy Privacy refers to the right of an individual to control the personal information
  or secrets that are disclosed to others.
  Respect for
  autonomy
  An ethical principle that denotes the ethical obligation to honor the autonomy
  of the other persons.
  Respect for
  persons An attitude by which one considers others to be worthy of high regard.
  Veracity Truth telling.

Questions:

Does this violate patient privacy and confidentiality? why
Does it have a possible educational effect on health consumers? why 
Is this a case of moral corruption? why 
What are the ethical principles involved in this case study, please explain and attach references
What is the ethical theory relevant to this case study, please explain and attach references