Patient Confidentiality: Ethical Implications to Nursing Practice Patient Confidentiality: Ethical Implications to Nursing Practice Patient confidentiality is a fundamental practice in healthcare and it is integral part of healthcare ethical standards (Purtilo & Dougherty‚ 2010). According to the American Nurses Association (ANA) code of ethics “the nurse has a duty to maintain confidentiality of all patient information” (Nursing world‚ p.6). Also‚ when a patient confidentiality
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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: 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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entitled‚ often held to include the right to life and liberty‚ freedom of thought and expression‚ and equality before the law. I would like to talk to you about privacy and confidentiality. Privacy: the quality or condition of being secluded from the presence or view of others. (http://www.answers.com/topic ) Confidentiality: Containing information whose unauthorized disclosure could be injurious to either
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Patient Confidentiality 1 Article background: “Some 13 per cent of US medical schools have reported that their students have leaked confidential information about patients via blogs or social networking websites. The students didn ’t name names‚ but did provide enough personal information‚ such as the medical condition involved and hospital‚ for patients or their families to recognize who is being described…The information was provided by medical school administrators as part
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Due to confidentiality i will name my clinical environment James ward. It is a 1-beded mixed ward that benefits from an adequate level of qualified staff that are approachable and values student’s personal initiation and involvement in educationally valuable activities. The Gibbs (1988) reflective framework will be used. There are journals and access to a computer‚ linked to the internet‚ which can be accessed by students for research on assigned topics‚ as part of their learning contract. The
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entitled The Meaning of Technical Terms Used in Skateboarding Tricks by Made Ari Sukmayanti (2011). Her study focused on the technical terms used in skateboarding tricks and the meaning of the technical terms in skateboarding tricks. Documentation method in collecting the data and qualitative descriptive method in analyzing the data are used in his study. The theory of the types of meaning by Lyons (1996) was used in that study. The result of her study was that there were many technical terms used in
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To improve security and confidentiality in the workplace‚ you should: • Not allow computer screens to be seen by unauthorised people • Ensure people can’t see confidential documents that aren’t meant for them • Log off your computer if it is unattended • Use computer passwords that are not easy to guess • Double check outgoing emails before you send them • Never gossip or share confidential information • Err on the side of caution when disclosing information
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Respect for the dignity of humanity is about respecting the people I will be helping. If I am in a bad mood I need to leave it at home‚ the people coming in are coming for help and don’t need to feel my anger. Going to the Doctors can be scary for little kids‚ and if I am gummy that could give them a negative vibe making it harder on the parents to being them in. Respect confidential is not releasing anyone’s person information‚ unless legally authorized. By leaving work talk to work‚ and not bring
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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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