How can you ensure patient confidentiality while advocating for their rights?

The core ethical values in nursing are Autonomy: The right to self-determination. ... Beneficence: The promotion of good. ... Justice: Fairness or an equal distribution of benefits. ... Nonmaleficence: The avoidance or minimization of harm In individual cases, patient harm often can be presented as a systems issue and take the discussion beyond a specific situation. This also has aided myself to expand my view of an incident beyond an isolated event to much more pervasive issues.

It all starts with a healthy and robust risk versus benefit conversation with the patient and excellent documentation with parameters previously decided on by both patient and provider. I find out a timeline is also very helpful and the opportunity to adjust expectations and decisions as the process moves along.

Advocating for patient safety and confidentiality is all healthcare providers responsibility. Understanding the legalities and maintaining secure charting is imperative.

Go get involved with patient care not paper care.If the boss doesn’t know ABCD of it how are you all going to teach them. Patients are not dummies. They are real human beings. Knowledge without Practical is useless. You all can have a PhD in Nursing and doesn’t even know how to draw blood. Stop this nonsense and under pay the staff who is experienced than the so called degree holders.

Before sharing a patient's health information with healthcare providers or third parties, you must get their consent. Explain what information will be shared, who will receive it, and why. Ensure the patient fully understands and document their consent, which safeguards their rights and confirms you have permission. Remember, the patient can withdraw consent anytime, so keep the communication open and ongoing.

One of the aspects of consent is age and comprehension even of the adult. If the patient is willing, they can help in the appropriate situation that family and loved ones be brought into consent as support makes for a smoother experience. As well, it would be important to know of any barriers that a person giving consent would have as oppositionand lack of support should be noted and prepared for.

This is a difficult challenge as there are multiple ways to communicate, but particular groups remain fixed and focused on, tried and true methods. We cannot assume that everyone has an email. We cannot expect all people to have a cell phone. And if they do, are they set up for messages? And sometimes people cannot visit due to restrictions and travel for example not having a vehicle or not having someone help them travel if they are in a wheelchair. It is far more complicated in reality than in a classroom. Also is hearing what it used to be?Virtual encounters with all the rage during the virus pandemic but insurance does not want to cover that anymore. All in all this requires a case by case evaluation.

I disagree with the minimum necessary rule, as it is a favorable idea on the face of it, but somewhat Hill suited in practice. The greater the information and the more input of various specialties, labs, conversations, gives them more robust picture, and a better decision making. This is one of those determinations made in a boardroom and not with any input from Frontline individuals. This is why the legal field has a field day and makes hay with healthcare. They will always find a way to accuse the poor and hapless healthcare worker who tried their very best as to “why were you not able to get further information and then injured my client?”. This kind of rule in healthcare is the absolute opposite of the legal field in injury cases.

This has become a farce as there are no penalties for large companies only against the individuals. Hospital system after hospital system and private practices have been subject to multiple security breaches of patient information and only a letter goes out to let you know that this occurred and it was unfortunate and you will have free credit checks for one year. But it’s like trying to Catch the feather in the wind. Once the information is out, it’s never brought back. The pity, the poor nurse that might have left a name and Social Security number on a piece of paper at the hospital that was not shredded. The justice in this is unequal and needs to be better remedy.