Confidentiality 1) Confidentiality means that whatever information you hold on someone must not be shared with others. Information must be kept safe and private. You can only pass on information about someone if they have given their consent. 2) The Data Protection Act 1998 & 2003 is mandatory and has eight principles. These principles dictate how information is to be handled. Information should only be used for the use it was intended‚ it must not be given to anyone else without
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ThConfidentiality is a key ethical and legal principle governing health care practice. Confidentiality is recognised as a requirement of practice for all health professions in: 1. Health Services Act 1988 (Vic); 2. Contracts of employment; 3. Professional Codes of Conduct; Rationale for confidentiality 1. Respect for patient autonomy An important principle in health care ethics is respect for patient autonomy. This principle emphasises a person’s right to have control over their own life. This
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Confidentiality The Data Protection Act 1998 gives people the right to confidentiality of personal information. Confidentiality means keeping information given to oneself private and not sharing it with anyone that does not ‘need to know’. In the care setting‚ providing confidentiality requires confirmation that personal and private information belonging to service users cannot be accessed by others. Any information given by a service user should not be disclosed without the service user’s permission
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WHO defines policy as decisions‚ plans‚ and actions that are followed to achieve a particular health care goal within a society. A detailed health policy can achieve several things such as defining a vision for the future‚ which in turn helps to establish goals and points of reference for the short and medium term. Healthcare settings have various policies which are continuously updated to keep up with the growing demands of the field. Nurses have a lot of ethical and legal responsibilities in their
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CONFIDENTIALITY THE HISTORY OF CONFIDENTIALITY IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE. One of the oldest documents we can find about confidentiality is the Hippocratic Oath what was written in the 4th century BC. We all know that nurses are not taking this oath‚ but we are bound to the same confidentiality regulations as doctors and other health professionals including social workers. Untrained or ancillary workers should not have access to patient’s records and there is no need for them to know certain confidential
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Benjamin P. Welch Mr. Barnard Psychology 200 December 1‚ 2004 A simple summary of I’m Ok-You’re Ok will not give the needed credit that the book and its author deserve. It is a book that one must read to fully or even partially understand it’s meaning and the author’s viewpoint of transactional analysis. The author‚ Thomas A. Harris M.D.‚ explains in this book the vast amount of experiences that affect the way we live our life from the moment we are born to the second we die. He
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Patient Confidentiality: Ethical Implications to Nursing Practice Patient Confidentiality: Ethical Implications to Nursing Practice Patient confidentiality is a fundamental practice in healthcare and it is integral part of healthcare ethical standards (Purtilo & Dougherty‚ 2010). According to the American Nurses Association (ANA) code of ethics “the nurse has a duty to maintain confidentiality of all patient information” (Nursing world‚ p.6). Also‚ when a patient confidentiality
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Confidentiality in Health Care Abstract The Health Information Portability Accountability Act was enacted to prevent patient’s private health information from being disclosed without authorization. The Health Information Portability Accountability Act has different sections which define what covered entities are‚ and explain what minimum necessity is in relation to patient’s private health information. This paper also discusses what the penalties may be for different types of private health information
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Among the many administrative responsibilities that a medical assistant has‚ patient confidentiality is one of the most crucial aspects of working in a hospital or clinic. In the scenario presented for this assignment‚ an employee sees a fellow assistant looking at the medical record of a patient who has recently been on the news for accused child abuse. Upon inquiry‚ the assistant claims that they must have opened the wrong file – their hesitant reaction to being questioned is an indication of disingenuous
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Providing Care for Looked after Children Arrangements made for good quality care At the end of March 2011‚ there were 65‚520 looked-after children and young people in England and therefore many professionals are needed to keep up a good quality of care for every single child who is to be looked after. The health and wellbeing of looked-after children and young people (their physical health‚ social‚ educational and emotional wellbeing)‚ comes from their quality of life and/or care. Some looked-after
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