Privacy and Confidentiality Maintaining privacy and confidentiality for patients is a fundamental duty of care as a nurse. It is clearly stated that "a nurse must treat personal information obtained in a professional capacity as confidential" (ANMC‚ 2003‚ pg. 4). Although the terms privacy and confidentiality are often interchanged‚ they should be distinguished. Privacy refers to one’s ownership of one’s body or information about one’s self‚ whereas confidentiality refers specifically
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Module 1- Intentional Tort Samuels vs. Southern Baptist Hospital taking place February 13th 1992 in Louisiana. A minor age sixteen Rochelle Harris and her family sue for an Intentional tort from the Southern Baptist’s former employee Raymond Stewart. The injury that occurred here was an incident of a common everyday tort known as rape. Ms. Rochelle was sixteen at the time of this intentional tort she had been admitted to a psychiatric ward at Southern Baptist Hospital by her parents from an attempt
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Explain the term Confidentility: Confidentiality is a right a person has in which to keep information about themselves private without anyone else being able to access it unless given permission or consent by an authorised person. A person’s information should only be disclosed on a need to know basis i.e official bodies or next of kin unless specified otherwise. Information may also be disclosed if the information that is being held outweighs the risk to the person’s health. Part B. Give a brief explanation
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Principle Administrative Associate. I excel in my career to a senior level Principal Administrative Associate (PAA) at the City of New York Agency. During my employment as a senior PAA‚ I learned how to organize the department workflow and assign projects to appropriate staff within the department. I develop strategic plans to ensure all the administrative job responsibilities and office staff of the Housing Litigation Department of the New York City Housing Authority worked efficiently and the work
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University NRS-437V-O102 1. Explain the ethical implications of a breach of confidentiality. The ethical consequences of a breach of confidentiality can actually have a considerable effect on both the patient and the nurse and create ethical dilemmas. Information disclosure can occasion problems on a legal‚ professional and personal level (Marquis & Huston‚ 2009). In nursing‚ the ethical requirement for confidentiality is very important‚ because of the need to set up mutual trust between patients
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CONFIDENTIALITY Professional especially doctors have an ethical and legal duty to respect confidentiality of patients. I am going to give details of a case study I came across and then outline the issues surrounding confidentiality referring to it. The case study is about a man (Mr X) who is in a relationship with a drug representative. He discovers that one of the drugs he is researching is produced by another subsidiary of his girlfriend’s drug company. As part of the research‚ he has access to
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Confidentiality has been described as the key to safeguarding the human dignity of the patient (Hendrick‚ 2000). Confidentiality regarding the patient/client record is a declaration of the trust inherent in the nursing/midwifery practice relationship with a patient/client. Ethical and legal considerations influence
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the principles and boundaries of confidentiality are to do with safeguarding children and young people. The principle - or main reason for having confidentiality in settings is to maintain positive‚ supportive‚ respectful relationships with children and young people that recognises each individual’s right to privacy‚ their right to protection and their right to free expression. This could be done by finding quiet less public areas for discussing information‚ ensuring information given within a setting
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lower tolerance of fiber connectors Graded index fiber has a core of varying refractive index it has a high value n at the core which dec radially towards the cladding has a multimode graded index fiber multimode graded index fiber under parabolic index profile shows a parabolic transmission of rays through it through geometrical optics‚large no of refractions are observed due to varying refractive index from core to cladding multimod graded index fiber hav a lower intermodal dispersion
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in decision making that result in harm or death are tragic and costly to the families affected. There are also negative impacts to the medical providers and the associated institutions (Wu‚ 2000). Patient safety is a cornerstone of higher-quality health care and nurses serve as a communication link in all settings which is critical in surveillance and coordination to reduce adverse outcomes (Mitchell‚ 2008). The Lewis Blackman Case 1 of 1 point accrued On Thursday November 2‚ 2000‚ 15 year old
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