The code: Standards of conduct‚ performance and ethics for nurses and midwives’ (2008) states: "You must respect people’s right to confidentiality." "You must ensure people are informed about how and why information is shared by those who will be providing their care." "You must disclose information if you believe someone may be at risk of harm‚ in line with the law of the country in which you are practising." Confidentiality A duty of confidence arises when one person discloses information
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Running Header: ADMINISTRATIVE ETHICS PAPER Administrative Ethics Paper Shana S. White Susan Morgan HCS/335 University of Phoenix Administrative Ethics Paper In the health care administration system there are different types of problems that may arise. Problem such as in-house restructuring‚ organizing‚ and also ethical problems that may or may not be associated with patient care. These types of problems may cause any health care administrator to become diligent in writing‚ rewriting
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Administrative Ethics Paper HCS/335 Angeline Smith OCTOBER 14‚ 2014 Dr. Michelle Anthony Abstract This article presents a case study where conflicts between an individual’s right to privacy and the rights of patients and staff to know when a professional standard has been breached. The process where Health Care Administrator determines a course of action is reviewed in the contend of workplace procedure through an ethical analysis. The information that
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Administrative Ethics Paper Brandy Knight HCS 335 When working in an administrative health care setting there is always some type of ethical issues that come about everyday no matter what the daily activities are. As a healthcare administrator there are responsibilities that must be held up. Their responsibilities are to oversee medical records‚ billing and coding procedures‚ current technology practices and patient privacy requirements. Healthcare administrators work in hospitals‚ clinics
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Christy Figueroa 109 cr 44150 Powderly‚Tx 75473 Student id# 21732115 Confidentiality of Health Information‚ HIT 109 Research project number (40903400) In the medical field correct medical files are very important. Sometimes errors are just a typographical error. Any information that will have an effect on a diagnosis ‚treatment‚ or ability to be contacted will affect you and your health today and in the future‚ should be corrected. If you correct something it should be time stamped and dated
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how the service worker should treat service users. There are five different care values: - Promoting Anti-Discriminatory practice. -Maintaining confidentiality of information. -Respect and acknowledging individual choice‚ culture‚ Identity and beliefs. -Promoting effective communication and relationships. -Promoting empowerment. Confidentiality is ensuring service users private information is only accessible on a need to know basis and is protected from those who are not authorised to view
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Confidentiality Confidentiality is very important while working in a child’s workforce. Some information that concerns you needs to be shared but only with your super visor or maybe a parent or carer. Other information needs to be strictly confidential. The only necessary information to be shared within all staff and not just your super visor is food allergies‚ personal arrangements etc. For example‚ if a parent comes to you for some advice or a gossip about her having an argument with her other
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Breaking Confidentiality Grand Canyon University Ethical Decision Making in Health Care NRS-437V Breaking Confidentiality We are in a world where everything is electronic from communication between two people to our medical records. Even though we have all this information at our fingertips we still have the right to privacy. Information that could potentially be harmful‚ shameful‚ or embarrassing could be deemed confidential by the person the information pertains too. (Purtilo & Doherty
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Patient confidentiality In a television episode of ER which aired on NBC in 2000‚ Carol Hathaway became aware of risky sexual behaviors that had led to a 14 year old girl having a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and cervical cancer. Prior to finding this information out‚ Carol Hathaway had promised the patient that she would not tell anyone about whatever the patient discussed with her. But upon realizing the high risk of the girl’s behavior‚ Carol Hathaway came to find herself in a dilemma of
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References: Ethics. (2013). In Dictionary.com. Retrieved from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ethics HIPAA. (2012). In Definition of HIPAA. Retrieved from http://www.medterms.com/script/main Hospice of North Idaho. (2013). Retrieved from http://hospiceofnorthidaho.com/ Reizen‚ M.R. (2013‚ January). DHHS
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