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The patient described in this paper will be referred to as Jonathan Toews to ensure patients confidentiality. Jonathan Toews, is a sixty three year old man, born on August 23rd 1956, and lives with his eldest son. He was married two times and has three children, two children from his first marriage and one from his second. He lives in northern Ontario but originally was not born here, he moved here shortly following his second divorce. He is of Italian decent and is a practicing catholic. The patient weights 95kgs, is 178cm tall and has a body mas index (BMI) of 28.3. He said he used to play soccer when he was younger but since does not keep active or get the recommended amount of daily activity. Jonathan says he smokes around one pack or cigarettes a day and has a alcoholic drink roughly three to four drinks per week, he also describes that he eats fast food a few times a week. The patient now has congestive heart failure as a consequence of his MI. He was transferred from another hospital at the beginning of November and currently is waiting for more testing before he can be discharged from the hospital or moved to another facility. The patient has some known comorbidities that can exacerbate his CHF, this includes smoking, obesity, and noncompliance with medications.

Everything discussed between a doctor and patient has to be confidential. This means whatever the patient tells the GP, the GP is then not allowed to go and discuss this with other people. If a GP was to break this right then they are disrespecting the rights of the patient and there could be consequences for the GP. However sometimes it is difficult for a GP to keep that confidentiality if he thinks the patient is in any danger, for example a GP has been told in confidence by a vulnerable elderly women that her carer has hit her, the GP would either try and persuade his patient to tell someone about the incident or he could contact social services to make a safeguarding referral. Doctors should respect the patients wishes and keep the confidentiality

Performed patient-care duties for four assigned residents. Awoke and mobilized patients. Washed and dressed patients. Examined residents daily for alterations in skin and fecal matter, reporting irregularities to team leader. Administered patient medications. Maintained patient safety by use of proper mobilization techniques. Fed patients breakfast and lunch. Communicated effectively in German with work team and residents. Stimulated residents through friendly conversation, games, and interaction. Maintained composure while living under demanding working conditions.

A patient’s dignity must be protected. All patients must be treated with the same care to have justice in the medical field. The care for the patient requires non-maleficence. A procedure done must always have the benefits outweigh the harms. Through medical experience I have encounter cases where the harm would outweigh the benefits of the patients. The first case I found myself contemplating and eventually asking clarification was “Why particular myocardial infarctions get transfer to surgery?” From my experience when a code heart is activated, after expedited treatments, the patient goes into catheterization laboratory for surgery. My attending physician went ahead and explained that the benefits must outweigh the risks. Due to the patient’s

A horrifying accident occurred in Baltimore one summer where a nine-month pregnant woman was fired by an arrow that caused her and both her baby to die. However, the woman's health record was the greater issue, she was HIV positive and multiple hospital and ambulance staff had contact with the patients' blood which caused a lot of controversy and led state legislators to introduce a bill to add AIDS to the list of diseases that hospitals would be required to inform workers about. However, a staff member from the hospital had made her opinion public on media that doing this will only be violating the patient's confidentiality rights and that precautions should be taken that hospital staff should always be careful when handling patients whether or not they know anything about the patient's history. Meaning being prepared to handle patients such as wearing

The question of when is it justified to disclose patient confidentiality depends on the risks associated. Keeping of patients’ records remains important to any clinical officer. The CMA code of ethics advices the keeping of patient’s personal health information private and can only be released to the third party as outlined by law (Fowler, 2008). In the case study, patient’s confidentiality has been put to test in that there first existed keeping of the patient records confidential and proper treatment was offered but this has been betrayed. The forgery of the record and refused to cooperate with the patient poses a threat to the recovery of the correct information necessitating reporting the case to the police; acting according to the state

My time in participating throughout this course taught me the values of patient privacy, how all spectrum of health care professions are affected by technology, and importance as a health professional in staying educating to the current policies and technology onhand. While it is mentioned throughout my current job and through other healthcare courses the importance to safeguarding information, this course shared details as to why and how. I grasped a better understand based on the acts needing to set regulations through technology from the above mentioned HIPAA and HITECH. Personal health information very well is a part of a patient;s identity, under the wrong hands it can be violated in terms of harassing telemarketing being sent out to

Confidentiality in Nursing Keeping the confidentiality of a patient’s healthcare information is an important piece of professional practice for all registered nurses in the US. Although all nurses know the importance of confidentiality and patient’s privacy. It is very easy for a nurse to breach confidentiality today with advanced technology and social media. What is confidentiality, and why is it important in the nursing profession?

There has always been much debate concerning confidentiality in the mental health field, and the health field in general. Psychologists and doctors alike are primed to be ethical and keep a patients’ information private and confidential. Once a patient walks into a therapist’s office or doctor’s office, all that is spoken about is supposed to be iron clad and kept in confidence. However, there are instances in which confidentiality must be broken. The terms for breaking confidentiality between patient and doctor were of great discussion for years. In our day and age laws have been set on when and how to break the confidentiality of a patient’s information. These laws came after the controversial lawsuit of Tarasoff v. Board of Regents of the

As health care providers we have principles of ethical duties we owe our patient. We are to help the patient to improve without causing undue harm, and provide the same level of care to each patient regardless of the circumstances. The development of a CAUTI policy will assist healthcare providers in full filling these ethical duties by providing safe, effective, and quality guidelines of care to each patient. The business practice of patient confidentiality is achieved by putting regulation on access to clinical records. Only those individual who are providing care or have a need to see a portion of a patient’s chart should be allowed to view it. All staff member should inforce and protect the patients right to

Helped outpatients navigating the hospital, comforted patients and family members to improve overall hospital visiting experiences. Visited and comforted long-term care patients to improve their mental and emotional well-beings. Cared for inpatients through events planning, conversions, feeding and recreational activities.

Confidentiality is an essential and important part of therapeutic process. This involve the exchange of information between therapist and client. Clients must feel and trust that all personal information that is share will be kept between the professional and the group. A counselor should explain to all clients the risk and benefit of all policy and procedures and limits of confidentially. A counselor I will provide to all client an informed consent that will need to be sign and review a few times during group sessions. The act of securing informed consent, which requires the interchange of facts, figures and data between provider and client is essential. Informed consent is not just signed legal papers, it involves a conversation between a

All medical professionals should abide to patient confidentiality within the legal set of guidelines. Patient-physician confidentiality builds a relationship of trust within the doctor and patient environment. A patient can feel open and safe within this environment. This is an important factor of healthcare and without it there would be a lack of treatment towards the wellbeing of patients. Various arguments have been made to support the decision to keep patient-physician confidentiality a must in the healthcare setting.

Being a nurse in today’s society is fun and challenging. Not only are we to care for our patients, but by law, we are to protect the patients by respecting their privacy and keeping information confidential. Privacy entails the patients’ right to control their information, and to pick what may or may not be disclosed to others with consent. Although privacy and confidentiality are sometimes interchanged, confidentially is different. With confidentiality, we are bound by ethics not to reveal any information of our patients unless we are sharing it with another organization that is necessary. For example, if a patient has to have a surgery, then the primary doctor will have to share some pertinent information to the surgeon (Burkhardt & Nathaniel,