Cyber hygiene concepts for nursing education.
Cyber hygiene
Cyber security
Cyber-attacks
Health information security
Journal
Nurse education today
ISSN: 1532-2793
Titre abrégé: Nurse Educ Today
Pays: Scotland
ID NLM: 8511379
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2023
Nov 2023
Historique:
received:
21
02
2023
revised:
24
07
2023
accepted:
10
08
2023
medline:
18
9
2023
pubmed:
18
8
2023
entrez:
18
8
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The healthcare industry has increasingly been targeted by cybercrime putting patients, organizations, and employees at risk for financial loss and breach of privacy. Malware events compromise system integrity and patient privacy which could lead to delays in treatment, loss of patient data, inability to provide care, and increase in patient harm. In addition, these attacks may also compromise private and personal information for those targeted. Nurses represent a large portion of frontline healthcare workers and are uniquely positioned to help prevent cyber-attacks. Nursing curriculum should include education about the risks to patient safety from cybercrime and the nurse's role in preventing cybercrime. Nursing education has focused on hygiene for patient safety. Adding cyber hygiene to the essential practices of pre-licensure and advanced practice nurses is a first step to protecting patients, organizations, and employees from the repercussions of a healthcare cyber-attack.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
The healthcare industry has increasingly been targeted by cybercrime putting patients, organizations, and employees at risk for financial loss and breach of privacy. Malware events compromise system integrity and patient privacy which could lead to delays in treatment, loss of patient data, inability to provide care, and increase in patient harm. In addition, these attacks may also compromise private and personal information for those targeted.
OBJECTIVE
OBJECTIVE
Nurses represent a large portion of frontline healthcare workers and are uniquely positioned to help prevent cyber-attacks. Nursing curriculum should include education about the risks to patient safety from cybercrime and the nurse's role in preventing cybercrime. Nursing education has focused on hygiene for patient safety. Adding cyber hygiene to the essential practices of pre-licensure and advanced practice nurses is a first step to protecting patients, organizations, and employees from the repercussions of a healthcare cyber-attack.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37595324
pii: S0260-6917(23)00234-4
doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2023.105940
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
105940Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors have not received any funding and have no conflict of interest to report.