When looking at the medical field‚ it is obvious that there are many rules and regulations. Whether it is the oath to do no harm or the promise to always be professional‚ anyone practicing medicine can attest to the fact that there are many guidelines. All guidelines are very important. However‚ arguably the most important guideline which applies to all medical workers is patient confidentiality. Patient confidentiality‚ in compliance with HIPAA‚ is beneficial because it keeps the patient’s morale
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CONFIDENTIALITY RIGHTS Jennifer Sherwood Kaplan University CM107 December 16‚ 2013 Confidentiality Rules Upon arriving at a new physician’s office a patient is given a clipboard with several papers on it‚ and is told to fill it out and return to receptionist when finished. What are all these papers‚ and why do they need to be filled out? These are actually very important to the care that the patient will receive. Every time a patient is seen by health care professional
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E-mail and the Basic Communication Model Tracey Miller COMM/470 January 12‚ 2010 Steve Trask As noted in Appendix A-A basic communication model‚ “the basic communications model is the starting point for analyzing the communications process in terms of the intent of the sender‚ the needs of the receiver‚ and the elements of the communications environment” (University of Phoenix‚ 2009‚ para. 1). In today’s business one of the most common and widely used forms of communication is e-mail. E-mail sent
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When is it OK to Break Confidentiality? Confidentiality is central to trust between doctors‚ medical team and patients. Patients have a right to expect that information about them will be held in confidence. The birth of the Hippocratic Oath in the fourth century started the responsibility of physicians to preserve the privacy and confidentiality of their patients. One of the provisions of the Oath lays the ethical foundation for the physician’s duty of confidentiality even beyond the circumstances
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attempt of suicide this being the third time after being abused as a young child by her Step Father. During her stay Ms. Rochelle’s family came to visit her when there is visitation and are able to check her progress. More than a week had gone by after being checked into the facility then one night around 1 am Ms. Rochelle had been in her room asleep when a nursing assistant by the name of Raymond Stewart came to check on her. She had awoke to find him inappropriately touching her and she tried to get away
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CONFIDENTIALITY Professional especially doctors have an ethical and legal duty to respect confidentiality of patients. I am going to give details of a case study I came across and then outline the issues surrounding confidentiality referring to it. The case study is about a man (Mr X) who is in a relationship with a drug representative. He discovers that one of the drugs he is researching is produced by another subsidiary of his girlfriend’s drug company. As part of the research‚ he has access to
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Patient Confidentiality The confidentiality of a patient’s medical records has been an ongoing dilemma for healthcare professionals. To put it another way‚ there is a difficulty in discerning the boundaries of one’s duty and his/ her concern with the patients. Be that as it may‚ health care staff should maintain professionalism towards their work through respecting the privacy of the patients. As a matter of fact‚ this promotes the establishment of mutual trust between the health care staff and
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Today we will be discussing “tenor” in workplace emails. We will: 1) explain what tenor and how it is reflected in workplace emails‚ 2) why using proper tenor in the workplace is important‚ and 3) provide tips as to how you can successfully determine tenor for use in your own workplace emails. (First Slide) What is tenor? Tenor is the tone of a form of communication that reflects the relationship between the speaker and their audience. In regards to email‚ it is the relationship between the writer and
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the potential tension between maintaining an individual’s confidentiality and disclosing concerns. Even though parents‚ children and practitioners have the right to confidentiality there are some occasions where maintaining confidentiality is not possible and must be broken. If there are concerns over a child’s wellbeing‚ this must be reported or if you are aware of a criminal offence‚ you are again obliged to report it to the correct authorities. If confidentiality is broken it must be done in
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ethical issue in the healthcare setting. It will focus on the principle of confidentiality and how it relates to healthcare. Maintaining confidentiality is one of the fundamental components every health care professional must respect. It is both a legal and ethical responsibility of a health professional to understand the importance of maintaining client confidentiality. Learning to establish a balance between maintaining personal protection and administering efficient health care can be a difficult
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