The Importance Of The Duty Of Confidentiality

How I would explain the difference between privacy, confidentiality, and privileged communication to a client.

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

I am pleased that Associate Professor Lee Aitken (TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland) penned another article for the bulletin. This time, he considers the New South Wales Court of Appeal decision on NAB v Dionys as trustee for the Angel Family Trust. I cannot write a better “teaser” than Lee himself, so I hope he would permit me to use his words here – a bank will usually try to ensure that a customer checks his or her account balances and alerts the bank to anything untoward. To what extent is the bank able to rely upon a standard clause which

4.3: Describe the potential tension between maintaining an individual’s confidentiality and disclosing concerns to agreed others.

All settings should have a designated person to deal with child protection issues. If you have concerns that a child is being abused it is our job to disclose this information to the designated/manager of the setting unless you think by disclosing the information will put the child/young person in further danger.

Remley and Herlihy (2016) defines confidentiality as an ethical concept which refers to the counselor 's obligation to respect the client 's privacy and in session discussion will be protected from disclosure without their consent (p.108). The receptionist never disclosed what was being discussed in wife A session; however, her inadvertent breach of confidentiality occurred the moment she divulged the fact that wife A is a patient at a mental health facility. An important premise to understanding the ethical principle of confidentiality is base that a counselor respects the client 's right to privacy (Remley & Herlihy, 2016; Quigley, 2007). Premise one states the "counselor honor the rights of clients to decide who knows what information about them and in what circumstances" (p.110).

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.

Criteria: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3-Review the groups and individuals whose communication needs you must address in your work role. Explain how you support effective communication within your work role. Analyse the barriers and challenges to communication within your work role.

Legislations and procedures are put into place to protect the welfare of children, schools and childcare settings. Adults who work with children will need to understand about current legislations and familiarise themselves with them. Legislations are reviewed constantly so it is important to keep up to date with reading the relevant publications.

The ethical requirements protect confidential information and only disclose such information as mandated by law or where committed by law for a valid purpose (APA, 2005). In this particular case, the social worker chose not to break confidentiality without her clients consent because there was not a valid purpose in doing so according to her code of ethics in her profession. Had she complied with the court order, she would have gone against her professions ethical code and could have faced punishment and possible loss of licensing. The justice system could not force the social worker to testify because there was no imminent danger involved.

Everyone is entitled to confidentiality unless they give permission for someone else to see their information or they can no longer make decisions on their own (for example, if they are confused or comatose). A federal law, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act applies to most health care physicians and its guideline, known as the Privacy Rule. The Privacy Rule sets specific rules regarding privacy, access, and disclosure of information. For example, HIPAA specifies the following:

a swing in the emphasis and the resources devoted to this activity. Note; In all areas, confidentiality is of critical importance.

As a whole, the regulation of banking institutions and financial markets are considered as a debatable issue. Banking is considerably the most deeply regulated industry within the financial sector which is also one of the heavily regulated sectors in the economy. Many financial systems are disposed to periods of lack of stability.

Banks are constantly facing the risk of currency and interest rate fluctuations within the financial markets. Prevention of Fraud and mismanagement is the reasoning also seen as justification for the implementation of the regulation of the financial sector.

Over the last few decades, private banking has become one of the most important sectors among the financial services industries. Private banking has shown a significant growth during the last decade with increasingly changes as a result of the development of the clients’ economical and demographical needs and expectations. Accordingly, there was a diversification in terms of the products and services offered to customers.