aspect of Confidentiality and how this may impact nursing in practice and any decision made by a nurse. The official definition of ‘confidentiality’ by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is “‘all nurses must keep information secure and confidential in accordance with the law and ethical and regulatory frameworks‚ taking account of local protocols” (NMC The Code‚ 2015). The NMC express the importance of keeping information that a patient has stated private unless it is known that the patient is in
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Breach of Confidentiality Advanced Healthcare has strong emphasis on patient satisfaction‚ convenience and patient privacy. Advanced Healthcare has an EMR and LIS. Advanced Healthcare is a mid-size clinic with an Urgent Care Clinic. The staff in smaller clinics often has multiple functions. The employee involved was a lab tech who generally worked nights and weekends to support Urgent Care. She had access to Electronic Medical Record to be able to search for lab orders. During implementation phase:
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The issue with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and process of newsgathering has emerged with the advancement of social media and technology. HIPAA is a health information privacy law‚ passed in April 14‚ 2003‚ that protects individual’s personal records. HIPAA regulations are implemented in the Privacy‚ Security‚ and Enforcement Rules. Journalist and reporters are most affected by the HIPAA regulations and often limited to the type of information they are able to release
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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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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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Confidentiality refers to the privacy of information. Confidentiality is a vital component of the nurse-patient relationship‚ and without it there would be little trust between the parties‚ leading to implications on both sides; the nurse needs to trust that the patient has disclosed all necessary information honestly‚ whilst the patient needs to trust the nurse in order to be able to do so (Edwards‚ 2009). This essay will discuss the professional duty of a student nurse with regards to the Nursing
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Week 2 – HIPAA and Information Technology Checkpoint There are several advantages in having a standardized medical database. The most important advantage is a standardized medical database will offer medical facilities access to the patient records more easily. If a patient decides to change health care providers or if an emergency situation arose the patient would be able to receive service immediately. The database will contain patient’s medical information‚ so that if a patient were to encounter
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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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Three landmark pieces of legislation have been enacted within the last forty years; ERISA‚ COBRA and HIPAA. Each one of these laws was created to foster development and improvement in the welfare of the wage earners‚ job seekers‚ and retirees of the United States. The mainstays of these three pieces of legislation are to improve working conditions; to add advanced opportunities for profitable employment‚ protect employees‚ and to assure work related benefits and rights. What is ERISA? ERISA stands
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40903100 The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 2003 changed the way that patients‚ practitioners and insurance companies viewed medical records. No longer would physician be able to choose the level of privacy they maintained for clients’ records. Patients became more aware of their rights and responsibilities toward their health records. This paper provides a brief synopsis of how HIPAA has affected access to medical records and its affect on medical offices and their employees
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