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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Prevention [CDC], 2010). This, however, can subject patients to decreased contact with medical staff, treatment times, and use to facilities and equipment for rehabilitation. Patients in isolation often develop feelings of seclusion and depression. Nursing staff faced with increasing time constraints and responsibilities may also find donning of personal protective equipment (PPE), each time when entering a patients room, unreasonable and frustrating. While the current methods of isolation have proven
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defined in a number of different ways but it is very often related to nursing. Indeed, it is one of the first synonyms for nursing offered by nursing students and by the public talking about nursing. (M.E. Parker, 2013, p.7). Caring is displaying kindness, a feeling of being concerned, attached to someone, feeling empathy for others and an unconditional love. Many people consider caring as one of the imperative aspects of nursing. In order words, caring is an essential value in the personal and professional
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Critiquing Research According to Webster (1985), to research is to search or investigate exhaustively. He also states that it is, “A careful or diligent search, studious inquiry aimed at the discovery and interpretation of facts.” The piece being critically reviewed is an article by Dr Ann Seed (1995), “Crossing the Boundaries – Experiences of neophyte nurses.” Readers sometimes assume that if a report was accepted for publication; the study must be sound (Polit & Beck 2004), unfortunately this
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Malnutrition among the Elderly Nursing 408 Malnutrition among the Elderly Introduction According to research published in the May issue of the Annals of Epidemiology, in a nation where people die from complications of too much food, some die from having too little (Lee & Berthelot, 2010). Although malnutrition is often thought of as a killer in the developing world, it's also a problem for the elderly in the United States. In this paper, I will discuss multiple concepts related to malnutrition
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Ethical Implications: Breach of Confidentiality Grand Canyon University: NRS-437V Ethical Implications The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) , was made to protect the rights of patients with regard to who could have access to their health information (HHS, 2011). HIPAA is not taken lightly and at the organization this author works, a Confidentiality Agreement is signed yearly to assure that the guidelines are followed. Under certain circumstances, however
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Ethical Dilemma: Disclosure of confidential information and a duty to protect The job of a nurse is multifaceted. They are leaders, they are teachers, and they provide therapeutic nurse-client relationships. According to a recent poll conducted by Gallup (Newpart, 2012, para. 1), it should come as no surprise that the nursing profession is viewed as the most trusted profession where honesty and ethical standards are concerned. Nursing, like many other professional industries, have standards of practice
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Ethical Healthcare Issues HCS545 May 11th, 2015 Ethical Healthcare Issues Ethical issues arise in all types of industry no matter the magnitude of the issue decisions will have to be made regarding it. The health care industry is no different, some of those ethical issues include patient privacy (or lack of), transplant allocation, refusal of care, patient dumping, access of care, biomedical research and patient noncompliance with treatment. For this paper I will focus on patient privacy
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Katherine Kolcaba theory of comfort has created a new level of nursing. Promotion of comfort exists in all areas of nursing. Comfort is desired by patients of all ages and illnesses. There is a high importance in fulfilling comfort needs of the patient is order to achieve optimal health benefit and promote future health seeking behaviors. Keywords: Comfort, outcomes, quality, safety, and health promotion Comfort Theory was introduced by Katherine Kolcaba in 1994 (McEwen & Wills, 2014
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EBT1 Task 1 Critique of a Nursing Research Article A1. Article Ford, Y. , Heyman, A., Chapman, Y. (2014). Patients’ perceptions of bedside handoff; the need for a culture of always. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 29(4), 371-378. A2. Graphic Background Information | The purpose of this article was to identify patient perceptions of bedside handover through directly asking patients about their
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