essay will discuss the need for confidentiality and the nurse’s duty to keep information he/she is privy to‚ confidential. Brown et al (1992) suggest that a duty of confidentiality can be described as information that is disclosed which ought not to be disclosed further except within the relevant limits. Confidentiality is generally defined as the process of the protection of personal information‚ and is regarded as an integral part of a nurse’s role. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) are the
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Confidentiality and Workplace Ethics Confidentiality at the workplace is very important. Virtually all workplaces have information that needs to be kept confidential due to the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act. As a co-op student‚ you need to be very careful not to share any confidential information with your friends or family. The laws and regulations that support confidentiality come from our collective desire to protect the rights of the individual within our society. The desire to do what
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Reaction Statement 2: Confidentiality Do therapists bear the duty to use reasonable care in order to warn a third party of foreseeable danger? The majority opinion in the Tarasoff case is more ethically sound. The strongest argument against my opinion is that by imposing that a doctor has the duty to breach confidentiality in order to warn a third party of a potential threat can greatly impair treatment. The most important factor in ensuring that a patient receives successful treatment is
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What are the defenses to a breach of contract? If someone is accused of breach of contract‚ there are a number of defenses available to argue that a contract should not be enforced. If any of the basic contract elements are missing‚ or if the contract was made with someone of diminished capacity or for illegal purposes‚ a contract can be unenforceable. Some other examples of potential defenses to enforcement of a contract are mutual or unilateral mistake‚ duress or undue influence‚ unconscionability
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Patient Confidentiality Unit 9 Final Project CM107 Health care professionals have a duty to maintain confidentiality for their patients. Health professionals may not disclose any patient information revealed by a patient or discovered by a physician in connection with the treatment of a patient. Patients put all of their trust into healthcare professionals and it is their job to protect patients’ private information. Consequences will be made if patient confidentiality is disclosed
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A National Security Breach Citi mortgage‚ a subsidiary of Citi Bank has issued a national PR release. Citi Mortgage of Fenton‚ Missouri‚ has publicly notified the public as of May 20‚ 2006 several hundred mortgage applications filed by previous Citi Mortgage customers have been lost by The United Parcel Service package company of Earth City‚ Missouri. Citi mortgage member’s social security numbers‚ salary information‚ bank account identification numbers and the home address of clients and their
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Group A8 group memebers: Question 1 HowCan Pte Ltd enters into a contract of sale with Panda Ltd in China for the sale of perishable goods‚ F.O.B (free on board: i.e. buyer has to make the shipping and other arrangements). Howcan Pte Ltd then gets SureCan Pte Ltd to transport perishable goods from China to Singapore. The ship is supposed to transit via Vietnam. The goods are shipped out of China‚ but due to improper planning on the part of SureCan Pte Ltd‚ they are wrongly dispatched
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Security Breach Plan Bridget Baca HCS/533 January 28‚ 2012 Chong Daleiden Security Breach Plan Patient privacy and security is one of the most important aspects of the St. Johns Hospital code of conduct‚ they take pride in the sound policies and procedures set to maintain customer confidentiality. Each employee is held to a high standard of maintaining the highest level of privacy and confidentiality when it comes to patient health information (PHI). This paper will outline the plan that
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923 What is confidentiality? Confidentiality can be defined quite simply as a set of rules or a promise that limits access or places restrictions on certain types of information‚ but in this assessment‚ we are trying to draw the connection between confidentiality and the links it as to my specific field of nursing as also the substantial impact it as on my role. Being more precise than broaden in defining what confidentiality means in my field of work‚ patient confidentiality is when the
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The first step to establish negligence is to decide whether the defendant owe a duty of care to the plaintiff. The defendant is obliged to take reasonable care to its neighbor. Neighbors are persons who are so closely and directly affected by ma act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called in question: Donoghue v Stevenson. Thus‚ the damages occurred must be reasonably foreseeable. In this case
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