Examples Of Confidentiality

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 that they did not need to have to care for that patient. This could be another health care professional not directly related to the patients care or information not relevant to that care, or it could be a member of the public seeing you leave the perioperative suite and asking for information about a surgical patient.
Fidelity
Fidelity can be described as a “quality of faithfulness, based on trust and
This idea is the same as equality; where rather than ensuring everyone has the same resources provided to them, resources are divided in a way that each individual receives what they need (Phillips, 2013). In this way a person coming into the OR for a scheduled and elective cholecystectomy may need to be bumped in the event another patient arrives requiring immediate emergency surgery after sustaining a fall and requires an exploratory laparotomy to correct issues that may be present. In this case the staff including surgeons and nurses may not be enough to perform both procedures simultaneously, only one operating theater may be available, or a lack of sterilized equipment may be prepared and ready for both procedures. The person who requires more, which in this case is the urgent laparotomy will take priority because the cholecystectomy which can wait and will have their surgery at another