Sue is a COPD clinic nurse enrolled in a master’s FNP program.

Sue is a COPD clinic nurse enrolled in a master’s FNP program. She is interested in writing a paper on the factors that are associated with poor compliance with medical regimens and associated rehospitalization of COPD patients. She downloads patient information from the clinic database to a thumb drive that she later accesses on her home computer. Sue understands rules about privacy of information and believes that since she is a nurse and needs this information for a graduate school assignment that she is entitled to the information. Is Sue correct in her thinking? If so, why? If not, why not? (Minimum 1 word, maximum 500 words. Once submitted, your response cannot be edited. This response will be posted on a public discussion wall for all your classmates to view.)