Running head: PATIENT CONFIDENTIALITY Patient Confidentiality: Ethical Implications to Nursing Practice Grand Canyon University: NRS 437 April 3, 2012 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
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comply to their own personal ethics as well. The code of ethics (ANA 2001) advises nurses on ethical and legal responsibility to their own patients, as well as the community in which they serve. In today's health care system nurses are faced with many ethical issues in their daily task and they have to make clear and logical ethical choices of their own. These ethical choices are generally inspired by ethical doctrines that include beneficence, confidentiality, autonomy, fidelity, veracity, and other
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to their job description. Each hospital develops their own policies and procedures according to their needs always staying within the law. These policies and procedures help to work through ethical problems or dilemmas that a healthcare professional encounter daily. In the healthcare profession ethical dilemmas/problems are encountered every day by all of the healthcare professionals. As a registered nurse and throughout the years, I have encountered many problems of different magnitude; different
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nurse in his or her everyday practice. Whether one is aware of the constant weighing of values and beliefs through critical thinking as they complete each shift or not, those intrinsic basics for their morality are what is guiding them to make these ethical decisions. The groundwork for the standards of professional behavior were laid in nursing school (Jane, 2010) and were meant to be continued throughout each student’s career. Patients should be given an equal opportunity to be cared for regardless
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Personal Values and Ethical Standards L. M BSHS/322 Professional, Ethical & Legal Issues in Human Services July 2, 2012 Personal Values and Ethical Standards Dr. King once stated “if we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values that our reality hinges on” then and only then will we be able to define the true meaning of life, and the direction we are to go. Within this paper I would like to share with my readers the sources that has impacted my values, as well
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TOURO UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL MICHELLE LABRIE BHS 365 MODULE 4 DR AFSHIN AFROOKTEH Ethical Dilemmas The United Network for Organ sharing is also known as UNOS. This organization everyday helps persons who are terminally ill with transplants that range from kidneys to livers and many more. UNOS was discovered by the Coalition on Donation in 1992 to educate the population about organ and tissue donations. There are currently as of 4 June 2007 there were 96,589 candidates on the waiting
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Week 2 Discussion Nikita Tyler Brief Summary of Case Study While reading the three case studies in our ACA Ethical Standards casebook I specifically enjoyed reading Carmen’s the most. Carmen was a 19 year old Latino female from Puerto Rico who attended a community college in her neighborhood. She was being counseled by a 28 year old Caucasian female named Allison. Allison is a doctoral student involved in a practicum program at the community college. Allison has held previous counseling sessions
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head: PERSONAL ETHICAL DELIMMAS How Personal Can Ethics Get and How Ethical Dilemmas Affect Workers. Bradley Mitchell Professor Ronnie Jones Leadership and Organizational Behavior – BUS 520 January 2010 Strayer University – Center City Campus Personal Ethics ABSTRACT In this paper I will discuss the ethical concepts and dilemmas that are facing Valerie Young, who is an employee for a Chicago based fragrance company named Wisson. I will also 2 go into the ethical dilemmas facing her and
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organization. All individuals have their own interpretation of what the rules are and the ethical climate of the organization. This thought process was first explained by Lawrence Kohlberg which define these ethical decision making process as the Stages of Moral Development. Kohlberg’s model of moral development is useful for exploring questions about how members of an organization regard ethical dilemmas, including how they determine what is right or wrong in a particular situation (Hellriegel
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will read the case and write a 4-5 page report that answers the following: Discuss how personal differences and preference can impact organizational ethics. Discuss how organizational policies and procedures can impact ethics. Discuss the ethical dilemmas that Valerie is facing. Recommend what Valerie should do. Provide a detailed explanation. The format of the report is to be as follows: 1. Typed, double spaced, Times New Roman font (size 12), one inch margins on all sides, APA format
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