CASE: Paul Cronan and New England Telephone Company (A) Essay

On that same day, the patient’s wife stated that her neighbor phoned the hospital to get information on her husband and information was given out. It is clear that the nurse who gave out information regarding the patient was in violation of 3.1, privacy and 3.2, confidentiality of provision 3 of the ANA Code of Ethics. It is the nurse’s duty to maintain all confidentiality and privacy of all patient information. (Nursing World, 2012) Information regarding a patient should only be given out to those who are dealing with the direct care of the patient. It is important for nurses to be aware of those who are not involved with the care of the patient.

On August 3 I met with Colleen Wheeler and her daughter Kelly regarding Colleen’s termination from Rhode Island Hospital. Colleen is employed as the Gamma Knife Supervisor and has held that position since 1994. She previously worked in the Cath Lab for 4 years, and previous to that she worked at the Cath Lab for approximately 10 years before she left for 1 year to take care of her children.

Disclosing confidential patient information without patient consent can happen in the health care field quite often and is the basis for many cases brought against health care facilities. There are many ways confidential information gets into the wrong hands and this paper explores some of those ways and how that can be prevented.

This incident was later reported to the Office of Civil rights (OCR) by a patient who was informed by the hospital that his medical records had been lost by an employee and left them on a subway train. The One hundred and ninety two patients involved had been patients of the hospitals Infectious Disease outpatient practice, which includes HIV/AIDS patients. The fact that the patients involved in this case were potentially AIDS patients, made the violation that much more serious. Investigators had to take in to account that these people had their medical records lost, and in those records were their phone numbers and addresses and possibly their place of employment. If these documents fell into the wrong hands, the potential for destroying the patients’ lives was very high. Had a person with malicious intent got ahold of their information, they could have harassed the patient and possibly spread their personal information around, which could have had devastating consequences.

His actions were unexplainable to the relatives of the patient and unacceptable in care industry as this controversy raised issues and concerns about the care/nursing homes on how they treat the residents and this only put doubts and worries on the patient’s relatives about the work being done in a care/nursing home.

I am writing this for the purpose of alerting you to a serious problem affecting many members of the medical staff. When the UCR Hospitalists took over the ER call panel, we were all promised that only unassigned patients would be admitted to their service. Furthermore, every effort would be made to insure that patients who had preexisting relationships with on staff physicians would be admitted to those physicians or their appointees. However, the UCR hospitalists have been admitting "assigned patients" to their personal service, in direct conflict with these policies.

Castledine, G., 2005. Case of the deputy ward manager who broke patient confidentiality, British Journal of Nursing, [e-journal] 14 (19), Available through: Anglia Ruskin University Library website [Accessed 24 November 2012].

As a member of a medical professional team, you will work closely with many physicians. As you have read this week, guarding the physician-patient relationship is serious business.In this assignment you will practice what you have learned in chapters 5 and 7 in the Medical Law and Ethics textbook: * Federal privacy laws that pertain to healthcare and the "Patient's Bill of Rights" * Privacy, confidentiality, and privileged communications * Filing birth and death certificates * Examples of communicable diseases which must be reported to local, state and/or federal

Violation of privacy, Take reasonable steps to ensure that health information is stored securely and that patients' data is not available to others who are not authorized to have access. Prevent inappropriate disclosure of individually identifiable information. Chis should not give anyone’s private information out no matter if it is just a name or not. Chris should have referred the food service to the hospital’s HIM’s

It has, however, not been stated that the patient’s consent was sought before he was admitted into the mixed sex medical ward which violates Mr Jones right to be fully involved in decisions about his care (NMC Code, 2008).

There was much dissatisfaction throughout the plant among the workers due to workers being treated unfairly by management (Engelmann, 2014). According to Engelmann (2014), “Foremen “traded” workers back and forth between departments – one of them laying off a worker and the other hiring him back at a lower wage”. Many workers throughout the plant would complain about being denied a day off to attend the birth of a child or a funeral service of a friend or family member or to care for their ill spouse or child. Furthermore, company foremen were instructing workers on how to vote in local and national elections, and threatened with layoffs if they did not comply (Engelmann,

Does Samuel Taylor, the former member of the Local 718 Teamsters Union, have a cause of action against Ronald Murray, Local 718 business representative, who repeatedly harassed Taylor for about four months and intentionally inflicted emotional distress which resulted in Taylor’s loss of twenty pounds, extreme nervousness, loss of his union membership and his job?

adamantly opposed any recognition of the union. Thus, the union members decided to strike over wages, safety

Other concerns are conversations within the hospital cafeterias/lobbies about patients and their families, and employees sharing information throughout the hallways without a “need to know.” Once employees discover their colleagues looking at patient information without a “need to know basis,” and, other wrong doings according to the agency’s standards, their own sense of what is right and wrong instantly comes into question. Reporting the unethical behavior, the employee who had discovered the violations of patient rights is presented with a number of difficult choices. The legal basis for imposing liability for a breach of confidentiality is more extensive than ethical guidelines, which dictate the morally right thing to do.

An interview was conducted between a nurse and a job applicant on 13th April 2011, to explore the applicant’s past medical history and activities of daily living. The nurse commenced by sharing his role and purpose of the meeting, but few aspects were not touched like confidentiality and information handling. Immediately after explain her role, the nurse started exploring. The nurse said, “......then I will ask you some personal questions about you and your health ........ So let’s start with your name?” (7:70 mins)