Confidential Information Case Study

Some of our service users have profound learning disabilities and their level of comprehension and understanding is very limited, however they communicate constantly.

The subject I intend to reflect upon is confidentiality within a professional healthcare setting. Confidentiality formed a part of our professional issues lectures and it piqued my interest due to how differently it is interpreted within healthcare as opposed to education, which is my background. In an educational setting I was taught repeatedly that I could never ensure confidentiality between myself and a child. Comparing that to what I have now learnt in healthcare, this seemed to me almost the opposite way of working as I was used to and so I wish to reflect upon this.

Care homes as part of primary care team in health and social care setting like other organisations will need to record residents’ well being, progress of health condition etc. on a daily basis, and without exemption they need to be in accordance with legislation and policy to ensure the quality, accuracy and safety of the records.

Adults who work with children and young people will come to know most of the personal information like date of birth, address and contact details and also sensitive information like behavioural issues, some medical information, family background, whether parents are divorcing and so on. It is the responsibility of the adult to keep this information confidential. They must protect the identity of the child they work with and that of their families and carers. They must do everything in their power to protect the privacy of every child and adult.

This was a violation of Administrative Policy 1702.80 Confidentiality of Information and state statute RSMo 192.2435 that protects the confidential information obtained within a hotline investigation. As an experienced worker, we expect you to have a greater understanding of the importance of keeping information confidential. One of your essential job duties is to identify eligible adults, determine risks during a Protective Service investigation, formulate an investigative strategy, and identify needed interventions. Part of your intervention is to recommend that an Alleged Perpetrator be put on the Employee Disqualification List (EDL) when it is found that they have abused, neglected or exploited a Reported Adult. When you divulged confidential

Great Post Aba, I agree Dr. Brown did not respect the patient’s right to confidentiality and autonomy. Autonomy is respecting the patient’s right to be self-determining (Veatch, 2012, p. 57). The freedom to self-determination was violated, according to Cherry and Jacobs (2011) if an autonomous person's actions did not violate the rights of others that person should have the privilege to decide whatever he or she wishes, even if the decision creates a risk to their health and unwise to others. Even though Dr. Brown seeks other medical professionals opinions and also followed the Hippocratic oath and British Medical Association code, I think the person he should have talked to first was the girl. As he is the girl’s primary doctor since birth,

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CASE STUDY SESSIONS 1- 5 All names have been changed for reasons of confidentiality. INTRODUCTION Anita is a 49 year old female, well dressed, confident and of Christian faith. She has no health, family or environmental concerns and no history of drug, alcohol abuse. She is not on any medication and has a steady job as a team leader in a medical centre.

Patient name is Jennifer, she is a 15-year-old Middlefield High School Student. She made an appointment with Dr.Wilson an Ob-gyn, for the first time. While doing “New Patient History” she’s asked, “Are you sexually active?”. She hesitated and said that the appointment will be charged to her parents’ insurance and asked would their conversation be confidential. Dr. Wilson replies “Conversations that teens have with their physicians about matters of sexuality and drug use are kept confidential. We want you to be able to discuss things that are of concern to you and your health without feeling that we will ‘tell on you’ to your parents or anyone else.” Jennifer admits that she recently entered a pact with her friends. Each girl promised the others she would get pregnant within the next year. “And I want you to be my

I really appreciated you bringing up this topic surrounding duty to warn and grey areas of confidentiality. This is a common theme that I face when working with the drug and alcohol population, and could specifically see it being an issue when working with family units affected by addiction. The confidentiality laws for clients with substance use issues are strictest in my home state of Pennsylvania in terms of provided care – more stringent than mental health alone. Code B.2.a. in the American Counseling Association’s (ACA) Code of Ethics (2014) identifies the need to break confidentiality when the law demands, or there is foreseeable harm. That being said, it still leaves a lot of room for subjectivity. If a partner in a married

It is vital to talk about each session to decrease the anxiety and prepare the members. Termination will be brought up during each session and address what happens if a member would leave prematurely and what to expect when the group is finished. Evaluations of this group will consist of two tests. The first is the anonymous SG survey, which will be given during the last session. If a member opts out of group before termination, the survey will be sent to their email and home address. The survey is composed of questions that show the individual's feelings, if they have benefited from the support group. (See Appendix A) It is anonymous in the hopes that the members will provide honest feedback. The facilitator is in charge of looking over the completed surveys and make changes to their current curriculum. The second evaluation is Keane's Mississippi Scale for Combat-Related PTSD. It is comprised of 17 questions that focus on their PTSD symptoms and thoughts from the military. (See Appendix A1). The Scale will be administered at the first and second to last session for a pre and posttest. According to Weathers, the progress suggests that a five to ten point change shows reliable change and ten to twenty change shows significant change (Weathers, 2013). The facilitator will analyze and review the data, so they can measure how the member's symptoms have changed. If there are less than five points that have changed, the facilitator will reevaluate the group and ask for suggestions from colleagues to see what can be changed. The group facilitator will evaluate him or herself after every group. It is important that self-reflection right after the session, so they can document what went well and what they change. The last way the group will be evaluated is during the last ten minutes of each session. The facilitator will ask if anyone has any suggestions for changes to please be honest and open about it. If

Developing close relationships with patients in rural nursing roles, demonstrates nursing at its’ finest. Establishing trust with patients is crucial to deliver and sustain appropriate and effective patient care. But, while developing these close relationships with patients, the nurse could run the risk of breaching patient confidentiality with patient information. Differentiating the between privacy and confidentiality could be a bit confusing. Privacy is the right of individuals to keep information about them from being disclosed. Confidentiality is how health care professionals treat private information once it has been disclosed to others or ourselves (Erickson, J.I. 2015).

In popular detective fiction the law enforcement officer cannot access the perpetrator’s financial records because they have a Swiss bank account. But what makes bank accounts from Switzerland so formidable? Swiss bank accounts have doctor –patient like confidentiality like agreements. The existence of your account cannot be revealed without your explicitly expressed consent.

Risks to information confidentiality also refer to information security. As the whole developers’ team has constant and easy access to the information of the entire project, providing a total security become difficulty. Oleg I. (2005) illustrates an example: A developer sends some core files with the source code to his own mailbox on the Yahoo server in order to work at home. This kind of security breach is likely to ruin the contract.

The United States has held serious tension with monopolies and overarching, powerful companies since before the Boston Tea Party. They are some of the most illicit phenomena known to Americans, which has led to its governmental regulation. Nevertheless, Americans have found a near-enough equivalent: oligopolies; the formation of very few, large companies dominating their respective sectors through what is recognized as the concept of “corporate consolidation”. This process involves eliminating the competition by essentially purchasing it, maintaining only a few potent, growing, businesses in the market (Wu). Found in any type of industry, the pairing of the power these