This paper will discuss confidentiality, confidentiality breach implications, ethical principles, alternatives and ethical committee applications to an ethical dilemma. Implications When There is a Breach of Confidentiality The promotion of a trusting and working relationship between the healthcare provider and patient is an obvious reason to maintain confidentiality in healthcare. Releasing personal information to a third party without prior consent of the client is known as a breach of confidentiality and also has legal ramifications. An example would be an adolescent who is encouraged to participate in primary health care prevention. Many teens face depression and may have sexual related issues, but the challenge for them to get adequate and necessary treatment can be an issue.
RTT Task 1 Western Governors University A. Nursing Sensitive Indicators As the medical field becomes more-and-more complex, it is crucial that the nurse does not overlook the day-to-day needs of the individual patients. It is very important that the nurse as a professional does not become so bogged down with the medical aspect that one loses touch with the patient as a person. What may seem very minute to the nurse, can be of great significance to the patient. If the nurse is not sensitive to these minute needs, it can cause the patient to be unable to trust the medical team meeting the needs, and understanding the importance of more serious issues.
BSBMED305B – APPLY THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFIDENTIALITY, PRIVACY AND SECURITY WITHIN THE MEDICAL ENVIRONMENT. CONFIDENTIALITY, PRIVACY AND SECURITY ISSUES THAT RELATE TO THE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENT RECORDS. Medical practitioners and health care workers have a legal and ethical duty to maintain medical records in accordance with clinical practice standards and state and federal laws, including the AMA Code of ethics. It is important to apply procedures to ensure currency and accuracy because inaccurate or poorly maintained record-keeping systems and procedures will lead to wrong decisions and mistakes which can be dangerous to patients and costly to the practice. Records should be checked regularly for accuracy, reliability and consistency.
Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership Task 2 Breanna Jordan Western Governors University Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership Task 2 A. Root Cause Analysis Although medical professionals take an oath to ‘do no harm’, errors in healthcare still occur. Patient safety is always priority when planning care for a patient; however adverse outcomes may take place resulting in a sentinel event. “A sentinel event is defined as an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof. Serious injury specifically includes loss of limb or function. The phrase “or the risk thereof” includes any process variation for which a recurrence would carry a significant chance of a serious adverse outcome.
Wk6 Assign: Doctor/Patient Relationships Ty Moore Daniel Soodjinda 3OCT-SOCS321-WCO-V4D2Intercultural Relations There are many professions where we need to have effective communication. It is essential for a successful interaction. One profession is the clinical/ therapist profession. They rely on verbal and non-verbal communication. One of the biggest barriers can be language barriers which can lead to miscommunication which can lead to further problems with the wrong treatment or over-diagnosis.
For example, side effects of appropriately prescribed and administered chemotherapy are an example of adverse events not caused by error (Hoy, 2006). Medical errors should be disclosed to patients for a number of reasons. Because of their fiduciary relationship with patients, physicians have an ethical responsibility to disclose errors to them. To withhold this information undermines the public trust in medicine and damages the therapeutic relationship between physician and patient. In fact, patients may be caused additional, avoidable harm by failure to disclose because they lack information that would allow them to receive appropriate treatment should further complications arise (Hoy, 2006).
Legal and Ethical Standards for Healthcare Kaplan University Legal and Ethical Standards for Healthcare Everyone is different and unique therefore the level of care that should be provided will be different and unique. However how the treatment is performed and decided should be different. Everyone deserves quality care that upholds respect, empathy, and dignity no matter what a person looks like, age, gender, sexual orientation or financial status. Remember that whomever you may come in contact with is a life force and has feelings and to neglect those feelings is negligent to the person. Standard of Care A standard of care is a medical or psychological treatment guideline, and can be general or specific.
There are some patients or employees with strong accents that can make it difficult for one to understand and may cause a misunderstanding between both parties. Not only do healthcare professionals use communication to provide service but also for financial planning of service, it is used to build a solid relationship between the patient, patients’ family, and the healthcare professionals. Working in such a diverse health facility all employees, volunteers, patients and family need to take time and educate themselves on other cultures because what you might do to others as a joke or just cause might offend or hurt others. All employees should respect the patients’ culture and try to work and communicate as thoroughly as possible to avoid offending their culture, moral, religion, and beliefs. Many individuals think that is immoral to not administer any type of pharmaceutical medication to a dying patient, but out of respect we healthcare professional respect their culture and provide as comfortable as possible according to their
Who should have the constitutional, legal, or moral obligation to this growing entity? The answer to this question lies in many different forms of opinions and may not very well be answered, as personal opinion seems to overrule and outweigh the logic of it. Today, I will be evaluating each one of these topics to help come to a conclusion of health care and how it is considered a right, privilege, or responsibility. Right There are many different types of rights that US citizens are entitled to such as the right to vote, the freedom of speech, and the pursuit of happiness, but where does the right of the health and health care of these citizens fall? The Preamble of the US Constitution states that (the purpose of health care) is to "promote" for the general welfare, not to provide it (ProCon).
It may have been difficult enough for the patient to share the traumatic experiences with anyone, let alone continue to trust multiple clinicians who may or may not be there in the near future. So continuity amongst clinician and patient is paramount for the patient to receive maximum results. By having both a