Patient Confidentiality Confidentiality revolves round how staff members handle confidential patient information. To enable healthcare practitioners fully understand the health condition of patients‚ there is the need on the part of the patient to disclose what otherwise could have been private and discreet information about them. The patients trust that whatever information is passed to the clinician is held in absolute confidence. And the clinician‚ in this wise‚ is duty bound to keep the information
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Confidentiality 1. Confidentiality is paramount when working with parents and children‚ and when dealing with sensitive issues. Confidentiality means not sharing information that is given to you without consent. Confidentiality is important because parents need to be able to trust us as practitioners to keep their information private. Confidentiality of any individuals who deal with the nursery is to be respected at all times‚ however if a child is believed to be at risk or has been harmed
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1. Common Law Common Law is used to interpret what the terms in the contract mean‚ especially when there is a dispute about the application of an Act or the contractual relationship in a case‚ which then may become part of a common law (Victoria Legal Aid 2009). Besides‚ common law divides work relationship into two basic categories when the employment contract exists – contracts for service if the worker is an independent contractor and contracts of service if the worker is an employee (WorkCover
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preserve the confidentiality of medical records and standardized electronic data interchange (EDI) among providers‚ insurers‚ and government agencies. Ethics are a set of principles relating to what is morally right or wrong. Ethics gives a standard of conduct or code of behavior. Talking about what happened to a patient or who the patient is‚ is breaking the confidentiality contract. When you enter a health occupation‚ learn the code of ethics and ALWAYS remember confidentiality. It should always
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Workplace Counselling – A Necessity The relationship between work and the psychological well-being of the worker is a topic that has received a lot of attention in recent years. Work stress is seen as a modern epidemic‚ which effects one in terms of health‚ absence from work‚ and costs to the national economy. Studies have reported a wide range of pressures experienced by workers‚ such as workload‚ too many tasks‚ poor work environment‚ problems with colleagues or superiors‚ organization culture
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destruction or damage to personal data‚ legal requirements for the storage of electronic and manual data and access to secure information; issues relating to the legal requirements for sharing information eg freedom of information‚ principles of confidentiality‚ agreed ways of inter-agency and multi-agency/integrated working. 2 Be able to implement good practice in handling information Good practice in handling information: understanding the features of both manual and electronic information storage
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CONTENTS Chapter Page No. 1 Introduction 2 2 EAP Concepts 3 3 Why Workplace Counselling? 7 4 Organization Impact on Counselling 8 5 Counselling Impact on Organization 10 6 EAP and Top Management 11 7 Implementation of Workplace Counselling 13 Appendix 16 Acknowledgment and Reference 19 A PRIMER ON WORKPLACE COUNSELLING Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Employees spend about one-quarter of their lives in work
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Discrimination in the Workplace Workplace discrimination occurs when any individual who is in a protected classification received adverse employment or hiring treatment as a member of that group. Workplace discrimination is forbidden by law for such characteristics as gender‚ race‚ age‚ religion‚ and in employment decisions. The Chancellor’s Committee on Diversity defines Diversity as: "The variety of experiences and perspective which arise from differences in race‚ culture‚ religion‚ mental or
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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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When is it OK to Break Confidentiality? Confidentiality is central to trust between doctors‚ medical team and patients. Patients have a right to expect that information about them will be held in confidence. The birth of the Hippocratic Oath in the fourth century started the responsibility of physicians to preserve the privacy and confidentiality of their patients. One of the provisions of the Oath lays the ethical foundation for the physician’s duty of confidentiality even beyond the circumstances
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