Confidentiality As a moral principle confidentiality is the respect that must be given to individuals by providing their personal information only to those authorized or appropriate to do so (Phillips‚ 2013‚ pg 52). As a perioperative nurse‚ we are privy to much personal information that has been provided by patient’s for the purpose of their care needs. An instance where we would need to remember to respect the patient’s confidentiality would be if someone was asking for information about a patient
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whether there is a need to decide or act at all. Any intervention should be weighed up in the particular circumstances of the case. Social Care for Excellence (2009) Confidentiality in Mental Health Confidentiality has become one of my values because it is important for me to be aware of how I handle confidential information.
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LO - 1.1: Summarise key aspects of legislation‚ regulatory requirements and codes of practice relating to own role and responsibilities LO - 1.3: Evaluate own role and responsibilities in Lifelong Learning Sector Data Protection Act 1998 “The Act is to protect the rights and privacy of individuals‚ and to ensure that data about them are not processed without their knowledge and are processed with their consent wherever possible. The Act covers personal data relating to living individuals
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Patient Confidentiality 1 Article background: “Some 13 per cent of US medical schools have reported that their students have leaked confidential information about patients via blogs or social networking websites. The students didn ’t name names‚ but did provide enough personal information‚ such as the medical condition involved and hospital‚ for patients or their families to recognize who is being described…The information was provided by medical school administrators as part
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Child protection: Evaluation of policies and procedures influenced by legislation and historical context. Throughout this evaluation I aim to identify the positive and negative factors that support and influence the formation and structure of our policies and procedures; surrounding safeguarding and child protection. We cannot understand current procedures for child protection unless we understand past experience and how lessons from history have informed current practice. Safeguarding has been
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The legislation Is the school leaving age changing? A law was passed by the New South Wales Parliament in May 2009 to increase the school leaving age from 15 years of age in 2009 to 17 years of age. This law operates from 1 January 2010. Leaving age aims Why has the government increased the minimum school leaving age? The minimum school leaving age is being raised to ensure that school-leavers have the opportunity to maximise their preparation for further education or training or employment
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Professional Effectiveness Main body: 2‚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
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Breach of Confidentiality Advanced Healthcare has strong emphasis on patient satisfaction‚ convenience and patient privacy. Advanced Healthcare has an EMR and LIS. Advanced Healthcare is a mid-size clinic with an Urgent Care Clinic. The staff in smaller clinics often has multiple functions. The employee involved was a lab tech who generally worked nights and weekends to support Urgent Care. She had access to Electronic Medical Record to be able to search for lab orders. During implementation phase:
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| Confidentiality in Group therapy | | ------------------------------------------------- Over the past several decades the advancement of group modalities in the mental health profession‚ has brought about several potentially challenging ethical and legal scenarios that pertain specifically to confidentiality‚ privileged communication and privacy in group work. The inherent power of therapeutic groups to bring about personal change for members has seen increasing recognition in recent
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Sam Ty Fund Communication March 24‚ 2013 Self-Disclosure The things I would consider a low risk and share with most people would be my hobbies and what I like to do on my free time. Demographic information such as my age‚ ethnicity background‚ education information like where I attend college and my major‚ would also be low risk things I wouldn’t mind sharing with most people. Items that are at a moderate risk would include my personal information such as e-mail‚ phone numbers and address. Other
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