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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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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and confidentiality (McGowan 2012). The issue of patient confidentiality and electronic security problems among health care professionals normally evolve
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923 What is confidentiality? Confidentiality can be defined quite simply as a set of rules or a promise that limits access or places restrictions on certain types of information‚ but in this assessment‚ we are trying to draw the connection between confidentiality and the links it as to my specific field of nursing as also the substantial impact it as on my role. Being more precise than broaden in defining what confidentiality means in my field of work‚ patient confidentiality is when the
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Privacy and Confidentiality Maintaining privacy and confidentiality for patients is a fundamental duty of care as a nurse. It is clearly stated that "a nurse must treat personal information obtained in a professional capacity as confidential" (ANMC‚ 2003‚ pg. 4). Although the terms privacy and confidentiality are often interchanged‚ they should be distinguished. Privacy refers to one’s ownership of one’s body or information about one’s self‚ whereas confidentiality refers specifically
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arising from working with children is Confidentiality and reporting abuse /neglect. Although‚ it may seem that one issue is more serious than the other‚ both can become for challenging when counselors are involved with services to minors. In spite of the difficult challenges it may be‚ working with theses particular group of clients. Often times it may appear ambiguous‚ or ill-defined‚ following ethical codes and legal statutes are crucial. Confidentiality Laws in each state vary concerning Ethical
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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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References Myers‚ Julie‚ Frieden‚ Thomas R.‚ Bherwani‚ Kamal M. Henning‚ Kelly J.(2008‚ May)‚ American Journal of Public Health(Vol. 98 Issue 5‚ p793-80); Ethics in Public Health Research: Privacy and Public Health at Risk: Public Health Confidentiality in the Digital Age RetrievedFrom: http://ehis.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.rasmussen.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=49f44b71-cdab-436b-8567-68514587d92f%40sessionmgr104&vid=9&hid=20 Public health agencies increasingly use electronic means
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GenEthics: The Confidentiality vs. Duty to Warn Conundrum GenEthics: The Confidentiality vs. Duty to Warn Conundrum This report will examine the ethical conundrum of patient confidentiality vs. a doctor’s duty to warn a patient of a potential health risk (see Appendix one for scenario). Primarily‚ this report will argue that patient confidentiality cannot be overruled‚ as there is not adequate legal or ethical reasoning to do so and as such
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summarize the main points of the article you chose (one page). I read the article about confidentiality for teenagers. In the article it offered very interesting insight as to why teenagers avoid going to receive reproductive care services. It was found that the number one reason for teens not seeking reproductive health services is because of their parents. The reasons teenagers wanted the confidentiality of their visits kept away from their parents was mainly from fear of retribution or to start
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