you should do when you see Melanie’s message. Confidentiality This scenario illustrates Melanie‚ who is a nursing student‚ who has publicly announced a patient’s clinical status via the social networking site known as Facebook. This immediately becomes a both legal and ethical issue - breaching of confidentiality since Melanie has shared the patient’s information without his/hers consent. According to Sastow & Inman (2008) confidentiality is defined as the right of an individual to have any
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Physicians’ Rights and Responsibilities. • Current Components and Implications of HIPAA. • Current and Future Trends for Statutory‚ Regulatory‚ and Common Law Requirements of Confidentiality. • Current and Future Legal and Ethical Obligations of State & Federal Statutory Enactments State Statutory Enactments: Consent Confidentiality Informed Consent Implied Consent Federal Statutory Enactments: Medical Patient Rights Act Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
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Ethical Vignette Paper 1 Tanya Pamplin COUN 501 2/3/2015 Liberty University Dr. Alyson Pompeo-Fargnoli Ethical Vignette Paper 1 SUMMARY: The vignette video covered ethical issues such as; duty to report‚ duty to warn‚ confidentiality and privileged information. The first case scenario was about a foster child by the name of Dominic who was taken to the emergency room by his foster parent. Dominic was unconscious when he arrived at the hospital and he had a bruise under his eye and several
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HIM 6018 – E-HEALTHCARE ETHICS – CASE STUDY ACTIVITIES Name: Unit #: Unit Title: Kim O’Leesky 8 Internal Confidentiality Matters Qu. 1. What internal and external forces impact Selena’s concerns in this case? The primary factors relate to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)‚ Privacy‚ accurate and appropriate coding‚ billing‚ reimbursement and compliance concerns relative to Medicare / Medicaid and CMS guidelines. Internal forces include the following: Community hospital
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It will cover why it is important for the information to be correct and up to date‚ and the consequences of it being incorrect. It will also explain each terminology of Confidentiality‚ Integrity and Availability and present a scenario for each of these relating to the use of electronic patient records. For reasons of confidentiality all names and settings will be omitted (NMC‚ 2009). The data protection act of 1998 (HMSO‚ 1998) is an Act of Parliament that all users of personal information must adhere
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hardware protection than in software protection. k. Value of data is time sensitive. l. Valuable data should be protected at all cost. m. Access controls act as means to protect confidentiality of data. n. Confidentiality loss occurs only after direct disclosure of data. o. The need to know principle is to ensure confidentiality. p. The need to know principle works better in business environment than in military environment. q. The requirement of integrity suggests that all data is present and accounted
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performing the simulations‚ my personal value system consisted of values such as integrity‚ respect‚ trust‚ loyalty‚ and quality relationships. The new values that I have added to my value system are time and confidentiality. In the following sections‚ I will discuss my values on time‚ confidentiality‚ and loyalty an existing value. Valuing Time Time has become one of my values because everything that I do and every decision that I make depends upon how I allocate my time to perform and complete
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Association of Christian Counselors (AACC). In addition to the discussion of general similarities and differences of the two codes of ethics‚ the paper will also will also compare and contrast the following three areas of counseling in depth: confidentiality‚ sexual intimacies‚ and research and publication. While both codes of ethics have guidelines for each of these topics that are similar in scope‚ they also vary from one another on the specific details. Each of the codes of ethics keeps the client
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1. Understand why communication is important in the work setting 1.1 Identify different reasons why people communicate: People communicate for different reasons‚ to portray their feelings‚ emotions‚ pain‚ opinions‚ etc. To work with children and young people‚ communication plays a very important part to make sure that the best provision is created for all. There are many different reasons why people communicate. People communicate to share information and express a need. They communicate to
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values for a practitioner. The service users have rights to privacy and confidentiality‚ and we are to respect this. Yet‚ the value of confidentiality is challenged when there is a risk of harm or culturally inappropriate. ANZASW code of ethics offer guidance when faced with such dilemma and SWRB protect the service user by ensuring the competence of the social worker.
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