Confidentiality within this scenario is defined as Sam’s personal information being kept private by the nurse caring for him (Burns‚ 2015). This implies that the nurse has a responsibility to maintain Sam’s confidentiality‚ because they have legal requirements to do so (Aldworth‚ 2009). This is supported by the nursing and midwifery council (2015) which states that within all care settings nurses should always make sure they are respecting their patient’s right to privacy. This implies that the
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Decision Making January 20th 2011 How Ethics Affects Nursing Practice In the nursing profession we have a respect for our patients but obtaining trust and maintaining the confidentiality of the patient’s information has been established from years ago starting with the Oath of Hippocratic. The patient’s confidentiality includes protecting any information the patient divulges to medical personal‚ and not disclosing or sharing the information to others. If trust is betrayed‚ the patient’s would
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CONFIDENTIALITY RIGHTS Jennifer Sherwood Kaplan University CM107 December 16‚ 2013 Confidentiality Rules Upon arriving at a new physician’s office a patient is given a clipboard with several papers on it‚ and is told to fill it out and return to receptionist when finished. What are all these papers‚ and why do they need to be filled out? These are actually very important to the care that the patient will receive. Every time a patient is seen by health care professional
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in their professional role. This includes‚ but not limited to the duty to maintain patients’ privacy and confidentiality (McGowan 2012). The issue of patient confidentiality and electronic security problems among health care professionals normally evolve
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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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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 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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Patient Confidentiality The confidentiality of a patient’s medical records has been an ongoing dilemma for healthcare professionals. To put it another way‚ there is a difficulty in discerning the boundaries of one’s duty and his/ her concern with the patients. Be that as it may‚ health care staff should maintain professionalism towards their work through respecting the privacy of the patients. As a matter of fact‚ this promotes the establishment of mutual trust between the health care staff and
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Implications of HIV and AIDS from the perspective of HIPAA confidentiality AXIA College of University of Phoenix The most serious diseases in history are HIV and AIDS. Approximately 20 years ago doctors found the first case of AIDS in the United States. Today‚ people living with HIV and AIDS have been estimated to be around 42 million people (Teens Health‚ 2009). There has been a report of people living with HIV or AIDS to be around 300‚000 who are not even aware that they have this disease
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Accountability Act (HIPAA)‚ which among other things offers protection for personal health information‚ including electronic medical records.” (Webdictionary; 2012) HIPAA requirements and security rules give patients more control over their health information; set limits on the use and release of their medical records‚ and establishes a series of privacy standards for health care providers which provide penalties for those who do not follow these standards. HIPAA requirements grants patients several key
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