provider/patient relationship. The health-care provider is obligated to follow the standards set forth in The Hippocratic Oath‚ which is the basis of confidentiality guidelines. Furthermore‚ A patient expects that the health-care provider will be ethical and follow the correct guidelines and policies when maintaining confidentiality. In the United States confidentiality of health information is a major concern and is protected under the law. Only a patient has a right to control how their patient information
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The CIA refers to the triad of three concepts included in the information sharing and communication within and outside the organizations. this CIA is the short term for the Confidentiality‚ integrity and Availability. these three concept are also the three properties of the CIA. the confidentiality is actually related with the fact that any piece of information that is an importance resource of the organization like one of its trade secret or any of the reason behind its competitive advantage should
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Decision Making January 20th 2011 How Ethics Affects Nursing Practice In the nursing profession we have a respect for our patients but obtaining trust and maintaining the confidentiality of the patient’s information has been established from years ago starting with the Oath of Hippocratic. The patient’s confidentiality includes protecting any information the patient divulges to medical personal‚ and not disclosing or sharing the information to others. If trust is betrayed‚ the patient’s would
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Defining Crime Crime Is usually defined as whether the law has been broken which may lead to a punishment by the legal system however crime is hard to define because if the law or penal system did not exist than neither would the labelling of a behaviour or act as criminal or not. The legal system defines acts as criminal if a person has broken the law either by “actus reus” (guilty act)‚ when a criminal act has occurred or “mens rea” (guilty mind) when a person had the intention of carrying
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The roots‚ of which date‚ back to classical Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle. The defining difference between the two schools of thought has become knows as “nature v. nurture.” Plato advocated nature‚ known as nativist view‚ which seeks to define one’s actions based on the assumption that we are endowed with certain‚ intrinsic modes of behavior. Alternately‚ Aristotle advocated nurture‚ known as the empiricist view‚ which asserts one’s behavior is dictated by what one is taught and experiences
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your answer in relation to the scholarship and arguments that have most influenced your thinking. Genocide is a term defined by legal‚ scholar and social professionals in vastly different views ranging from board to narrow. The trail to adequately define this complex act has dominated discussions and debates since the term’s development in 1943 by Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in his publication Axis Rule in Occupied Europe 1944. By reading and analysing various definitions Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn
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Defining Marketing We can distinguish between a social and a managerial definition for marketing. According to a social definition‚ marketing is a societal process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating‚ offering‚ and exchanging products and services of value freely with others. As a managerial definition‚ marketing has often been described as “the art of selling products.” But Peter Drucker‚ a leading management theorist‚ says that “the aim of marketing
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to be much more difficult. Gary Kessler states that a good definition should be "useful for the purposes at hand‚ as precise as possible without being to narrow in scope‚ and as free from bias as possible" (14). Keeping this in mind‚ I have come to define religion as system of beliefs that seeks to find order within the universe‚ purpose in life‚ and the meaning behind death. Throughout history people have sought out answers for the fundamental questions of human existence: Why are we here? Does everything
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less with the person’s rights and freedoms of action‚ or whether there is a need to decide or act at all. Any intervention should be weighed up in the particular circumstances of the case. Social Care for Excellence (2009) Confidentiality in Mental Health Confidentiality has become one of my values because it is important for me to be aware of how I handle confidential information.
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Introduction: The concept of “doctor-patient confidentiality” derives from English common law and is codified in many states’ statutes. It is based on ethics‚ not law‚ and goes at least as far back as the Roman Hippocratic Oath taken by physicians. It is different from “doctor-patient privilege‚” which is a legal concept. Both‚ however‚ are called upon in legal matters to establish the extent by which ethical duties of confidentiality apply to legal privilege. Legal privilege involves the right to
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