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DocuSign Envelope ID:A4D80A45-3D76-49OC-9BAF-5A28959D5D50 <br /> ®OOR tO OOR UNC Health Care <br /> A Mini Lesson Regarding Confidentiality and Safety <br /> For PERFORMERS at UNC Hospital <br /> Thank you for sharing your compassionate heart and your professional artistry <br /> with the patients, with their families and with the care giving staff of the <br /> hospital. <br /> 1. PREPARATION; When you think about what you would like to bring to the <br /> hospital patients, consider offering something with humor, something <br /> sophisticated, something beautiful and something strong, something to engage <br /> their imagination, taking them to a healing place, something soothing to ease <br /> their pain perhaps induce sleep and something remind them that they are part <br /> of the world outside the hospital. <br /> Alternatively, you may have one good moment of art to bring. Repetition can <br /> be grand. Jacki Shelton Green once came with one poem about her <br /> grandmother which she recited 23 times and gave each one of the patients a <br /> book mark with that poem printed on it A gift for the patients of words or <br /> images can be wonderful, if not too expensive. <br /> 2. WHEN & WHERE: I ask that you commit 2 -3 hours of time to performing. <br /> We will visit patients in their rooms, families in waiting areas and public <br /> spaces and care giving staff everywhere they are. <br /> 3. ATTIRE: Please dress in clean well fitting clothes that cover most of your <br /> body. Please do not wear black; although the uniform of performers, it has <br /> another connotation in the hospital. Please wash yourself and your clothes <br /> before and after your visit to the hospital. Scents are unpleasant for some <br /> patients, please do not wear perfume or after shave. <br /> 4. CONFIDENTIALITY: I will accompany you everywhere we go. I will do <br /> most of the handing out of cards etc. Touching the patients is wonderful with <br /> their permission, i.e. shaking hands or hugging. Asking their name is not <br /> permitted, asking "What may I call you?" is. HIPAA rules are for <br /> confidentiality. We all want that. Whatever you see, whomever you meet in <br /> the hospital is for you to keep confidential. If you describe an hospital <br /> experience to a friend or colleague, leave out of your story any name or <br /> identifying feature of the patient. <br /> 5. SAFETY: Before entering a patient area the first time, please wash your <br /> hands in the sink with soap, and very little water to begin, singing Happy <br />