ThConfidentiality is a key ethical and legal principle governing health care practice. Confidentiality is recognised as a requirement of practice for all health professions in: 1. Health Services Act 1988 (Vic); 2. Contracts of employment; 3. Professional Codes of Conduct; Rationale for confidentiality 1. Respect for patient autonomy An important principle in health care ethics is respect for patient autonomy. This principle emphasises a person’s right to have control over their own life. This
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Confidentiality 1) Confidentiality means that whatever information you hold on someone must not be shared with others. Information must be kept safe and private. You can only pass on information about someone if they have given their consent. 2) The Data Protection Act 1998 & 2003 is mandatory and has eight principles. These principles dictate how information is to be handled. Information should only be used for the use it was intended‚ it must not be given to anyone else without
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Confidentiality The Data Protection Act 1998 gives people the right to confidentiality of personal information. Confidentiality means keeping information given to oneself private and not sharing it with anyone that does not ‘need to know’. In the care setting‚ providing confidentiality requires confirmation that personal and private information belonging to service users cannot be accessed by others. Any information given by a service user should not be disclosed without the service user’s permission
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CONFIDENTIALITY THE HISTORY OF CONFIDENTIALITY IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE. One of the oldest documents we can find about confidentiality is the Hippocratic Oath what was written in the 4th century BC. We all know that nurses are not taking this oath‚ but we are bound to the same confidentiality regulations as doctors and other health professionals including social workers. Untrained or ancillary workers should not have access to patient’s records and there is no need for them to know certain confidential
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Benjamin P. Welch Mr. Barnard Psychology 200 December 1‚ 2004 A simple summary of I’m Ok-You’re Ok will not give the needed credit that the book and its author deserve. It is a book that one must read to fully or even partially understand it’s meaning and the author’s viewpoint of transactional analysis. The author‚ Thomas A. Harris M.D.‚ explains in this book the vast amount of experiences that affect the way we live our life from the moment we are born to the second we die. He
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WHO defines policy as decisions‚ plans‚ and actions that are followed to achieve a particular health care goal within a society. A detailed health policy can achieve several things such as defining a vision for the future‚ which in turn helps to establish goals and points of reference for the short and medium term. Healthcare settings have various policies which are continuously updated to keep up with the growing demands of the field. Nurses have a lot of ethical and legal responsibilities in their
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Slide 12 Entrepreneurial opportunities (definition) Those situations in which new goods‚ services‚ raw materials and organizing methods can be introduced and sold at greater than their cost of production. An entrepreneurial opportunity could stem from introducing an existing technological product used in one market to create a new market or it could be creating a new technological product for an existing market or creating a new product for a new market. 1. Because opportunities exist in
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Difficult Decisions 1 Chapter 8 Case Study: Making Difficult Decisions at NBC Universal The NBC Universal’s late night programming network where faced with some very tough decisions regarding Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien talk show host. I’m sure everyone is familiar with this dynamic duo‚ if not allow me to share a little history about these two gentleman. Jay Leno was born James
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April 21‚ 2012 Prof Beaupre Bioethics: Abortion Advancements in the fields of biology and medicine can be the catalyst for widespread controversy in regards to the morale and ethical dilemmas they can create. The sky is the limit for what is medically and biologically possible in today ’s world‚ but just because something is possible‚ does that mean we should do it? Like there are two sides to a coin‚ there
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Confidentiality in Health Care Abstract The Health Information Portability Accountability Act was enacted to prevent patient’s private health information from being disclosed without authorization. The Health Information Portability Accountability Act has different sections which define what covered entities are‚ and explain what minimum necessity is in relation to patient’s private health information. This paper also discusses what the penalties may be for different types of private health information
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