Nursing Implications Regarding Health Literacy and Informed Consent Roughly 90 million Americans have low health literacy. However‚ the responsibility of improving health literacy does not fall solely on the patient but also on health care organizations‚ including healthcare professionals (Mahadevan‚ 2013). More specifically‚ nurses have a responsibility to assess a patient’s literacy level in order to provide appropriate patient care‚ education and counseling. Furthermore‚ nurses have ethical
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The subject I intend to reflect upon is confidentiality within a professional healthcare setting. Confidentiality formed a part of our professional issues lectures and it piqued my interest due to how differently it is interpreted within healthcare as opposed to education‚ which is my background. In an educational setting I was taught repeatedly that I could never ensure confidentiality between myself and a child. Comparing that to what I have now learnt in healthcare‚ this seemed to me almost the
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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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Confidentiality and making patients feel confident in giving us their information. Confidentiality is taken advantage of every day by healthcare professionals. HIPAA states that healthcare professionals should not give information such as date of birth‚ patient name‚ or social security number. What about talking to your significant other or best friend about a patient you examined today with an ominous skin malady? You apprehend it every day in the healthcare field. Nurses talking to one another
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meant by “informed consent” and “implied consent”. When should written consent be obtained? Informed consent is a phrase often used in law to indicate that the consent a person gives meets certain minimum standards. As a literal matter‚ in the absence of fraud‚ it is redundant. An informed consent can be said to have been given based upon a clear appreciation and understanding of the facts‚ implications‚ and future consequences of an action. In order to give informed consent‚ the individual concerned
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In the nursing profession‚ keeping patient confidentiality is of the upmost concern. It is an important feature of the nurse -patient relationship and must be maintain as basis of providing care. Confidentiality is described as respecting other people’s secret and keeping security information gathered from individuals in the privileged circumstances of a professional relationship. (Lee and Godbold ‚ 2012). The privacy act offer nurses some flexibility in using professional opinion regarding disclosure
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Researchers continue to study the link between the communication of sexual consent and acts of sexual violence. The aim of this study was to determine if past forced sexual experiences changes future sexual consent behaviors. Since these experiences are associated with alcohol use the study also explored the connection between alcohol and history of forced sex. This quantitative study used a cross-sectional electronic survey that was emailed to female students between the ages of 18-25. The students
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Confidentiality is the protection of personal information. Confidentiality means keeping a client’s information between you and the patient‚ and not telling others including friends and family. (Learning‚ n.d.). For example‚ the information about a child suffering from Cystic Fibrosis should not be disclosed to anyone other than the child and his/her parents. Confidentiality involves restricting patient’s information and not disclosing personal data of patients indiscriminately. For example‚ telling
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Age of Consent My position on the age of consent is that I’m for it. I believe that the age of consent should be and always be age of 16‚ because once have turned 16 you should be mature enough to make your own decision on who you want to have sex with because you are now in high school and you’re old enough to know right from wrong. The legal age of consent is Washington State is 16. Age of consent is the age when the law considers a person mature enough to agree to have sex. In the United
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Due to confidentiality i will name my clinical environment James ward. It is a 1-beded mixed ward that benefits from an adequate level of qualified staff that are approachable and values student’s personal initiation and involvement in educationally valuable activities. The Gibbs (1988) reflective framework will be used. There are journals and access to a computer‚ linked to the internet‚ which can be accessed by students for research on assigned topics‚ as part of their learning contract. The
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