Patient confidentiality In a television episode of ER which aired on NBC in 2000‚ Carol Hathaway 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‚ Carol Hathaway had promised the patient that she would not tell anyone about whatever the patient discussed with her. But upon realizing the high risk of the girl’s behavior‚ Carol Hathaway came to find herself in a dilemma of
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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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every individual country have upheld these momentum in a dignified way. Take the Jamaica for‚ example‚ due to Jamaica’s colonial history; there are some traditions that are not worth preserving at all. In Jamaica and other countries‚ parents are expected to beat their children as a way of ’punishing them’. They may do this with various objects‚ such as a belt‚ broomstick‚ ruler‚ or anything that can subject pain to the human flesh. If parents believe their child is "misbehaving". There is no proof
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Financial Statement Restatement Pape Financial Statement Restatement Paper It is well known that over the past decade the amount of errors being discovered within the financial statements of publically held companies has risen. One such error was announced by the internet sales company Overstock.com in early 2009. Due to an accounting error‚ partners of the company were under billed by $1.8 million dollars over the course of 2008. Overstock chose to record this entry incorrectly which falsely
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ancient Aztecs and primitive tribes to our modern culture body modification‚ the deliberate altercation of one’s body‚ has existed for thousands of years. As this industry has grown‚ so have the debates over body modification. Melanie Phillips has gone as far as equating these practices to “self – mutilation and their popularity as a sign of a morally corrupt‚ shallow‚ and spiritually empty culture.” This is not the case. Body modification is overflowing in history and culture from around the world
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when I can just skate my way through life. The ethical question why would you want to skate through life? It is time to start being accountable for your actions time to stop wasting away on the easy road through life. A way a student in college can do this is by reminding one’s self that making good choices lead to a fulfilling college experience and teach the difference of right and wrong and help guide future decision making. An essay that I found in the art of man states “moral reminders are
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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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Preserving Cambodian Culture All the countries in the world always have different culture and different preserving their culture. Now let’s me take Cambodian culture and how to keep Khmer culture to describe about what i have known and study before. So‚ how i keep my country to enable for a long time? Cambodia has a lot of religion that come to live like Chines‚ Vietnamese‚ French etc. However they don’t live in their country‚ they still respect and keep their culture. So‚ i am Khmer‚ live
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Outline of Informative Speech Body Modifications- By: Shayna Stevens Intro- A story about a San Francisco based‚ Texas native cutting off his pinky in the underground world of body modifications found in Pubisher’s Weekly published on October 15‚ 2012. Transition-This is just one way a fellow modifier chose to change himself‚ but believe it or not in one way or another you‚ yourself are a modifier as well. Significance- • Sharon Heywood wrote in Herizons published in Fall of 2012‚ that “After
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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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