Running head: ETHICS OF CONFIDENTIALITY Ethics of Confidentiality Stacy L. Reynolds Grand Canyon University: NRS437V March 24‚ 2012 Ethics of Confidentiality In a television episode of ER which aired on NBC in 2000‚ a nurse became aware of risky sexual behaviors that had led to a 14 year old girl having a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and cervical cancer. Prior to finding this information out‚ the nurse had promised the patient that she would not tell anyone about
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THE ETHICAL AND LEGAL STATUS OF THE FOETUS The difficult question of when life actually begins has often led to several complicated and controversial decisions worldwide. Does life commence at twenty four weeks’ gestation‚ when a foetus can continue to exist outside the womb or twenty two weeks‚ because of recent advances in bio-medical healthcare? Can this timeline be brought down to eight weeks‚ when an embryo is deemed a foetus or should life simply begin from conception‚ as Muslims‚ Christians
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Ethical and Legal Issues NUR/391 March 23. 2011 Ethical and Legal Issues Laws are to protect the innocent. Our patients are the innocents when the nurse is to be caring for them. The nurse is expected to care for the patient not only with respect but also with skill and knowledge to perform the job properly and effectively. Two cases affected by the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics are very clear. In the case of the nurse witness‚ her code of ethics clearly states she is to be
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FILE SHARING Ethical Debate with Today’s Technology (INTRO) You may have illegal content on your computer right now! File sharing has become a very large issue today in society even though it has existed for decades. It has been the recent advances in our technology that has made it main stream and in the eyes of the general public. File sharing today tests the limits of technology along with our ethics making it a fuzzy grey area. When discussing file sharing’s effect on society‚ first
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Legal and Ethical Issues Relating to Business Information Learning Objectives: I will be able to explain the legal and ethical issues relating to the use of business information (Pass) Legal Issues These are various items of legislation (law) to protect the use of business information. Data Protection Act 1998 Many businesses store and use information about people. The Data Protection Act protects information held about people from being misused. The information stored by businesses on databases
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Information Quality‚ Sharing‚ and Overload The three organizations to be discussed in this summary are: Frito-Lay‚ Vangard‚ and an automotive parts supplier. The three mini Case Studies all show the need for a better method of storing‚ sharing and transferring of knowledge. Frito-Lay and Vangard share a common theme in that they both need to improve in house knowledge management; with the ultimate goal of using this to improve their services to their customers. The parts supplier on the other hand
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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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Running head: LEGAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS – TASK 1 Legal and Ethical Considerations – Task 1 Name Western Governors University Legal and Ethical Considerations – Task 1 A shadow chart is a partial copy of a patient’s medical history‚ kept by health care providers or departments for the sake of convenience. A shadow chart is not part of the official medical record. It is a working document where information can be added and removed as necessary to
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DENISE AMPS November 2006 Essay on ‘Confidentiality’ CONFIDENTIALITY IN COUNSELLING Confidentiality in counselling means‚ to me‚ providing a secure‚ trusting relationship with a client who knows that‚ within certain limits‚ he or she can speak to you about anything at all in the knowledge that whatever has been said will go no further. It is an intrinsic and imperative part of the trust that is required to develop a good working relationship between a counsellor and their client. My
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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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