Patient's information should be kept confidential unless the person is using the infection to endanger the public or potentially cause harm to others. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, "During the early years of the HIV epidemic, a number of states implemented HIV-specific criminal exposure laws. These laws impose criminal penalties on people living with HIV who know their HIV status and who potentially expose others to HIV. In 1990, the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act, which provides states with funds for AIDS treatment and care, required every state to certify that its criminal laws were adequate to prosecute any HIV-infected individual who knowingly exposed another person to
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By having laws to protect patients information from being disclose help the public to trust us as health care provider and makes them less hesitant about coming in to get test for sexual transmitted infections. “Confidentiality means that personal information is private, and may not be shared without your permission. The confidentiality of a person’s HIV status is important because people with HIV and AIDS face discrimination when other people find out they have HIV. People will only get tested and treated for HIV, if they know their HIV status will be kept private” (Numbers, 2014, P.1). Nurses’ obligations includes what is in the best interest of the patient or the public. In this situation, the best interest would be keeping the patient’s information confidential, while educating the family member without revealing any information on the patient. Federal and state laws require that a person’s HIV status be kept confidential.” The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (known as HIPAA) is the federal law that protects the privacy of person’s health information. Pennsylvania’s Act 148 (named the Confidentiality of HIV-Related Information Act) says that a health care provider or social service provider cannot share HIV test results without written permission, except in limited instances. (Numbers, 2014, P.1). There are laws that protect the public from our negligence such as HIPPA. We are should to criminal charges if we release information on any patient without their consent. Truthfully, I would not want to be in the mix of a court case and possibly losing my licensure, do to revealing a patient’s health
By having laws to protect patients information from being disclose help the public to trust us as health care provider and makes them less hesitant about coming in to get test for sexual transmitted infections. “Confidentiality means that personal information is private, and may not be shared without your permission. The confidentiality of a person’s HIV status is important because people with HIV and AIDS face discrimination when other people find out they have HIV. People will only get tested and treated for HIV, if they know their HIV status will be kept private” (Numbers, 2014, P.1). Nurses’ obligations includes what is in the best interest of the patient or the public. In this situation, the best interest would be keeping the patient’s information confidential, while educating the family member without revealing any information on the patient. Federal and state laws require that a person’s HIV status be kept confidential.” The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (known as HIPAA) is the federal law that protects the privacy of person’s health information. Pennsylvania’s Act 148 (named the Confidentiality of HIV-Related Information Act) says that a health care provider or social service provider cannot share HIV test results without written permission, except in limited instances. (Numbers, 2014, P.1). There are laws that protect the public from our negligence such as HIPPA. We are should to criminal charges if we release information on any patient without their consent. Truthfully, I would not want to be in the mix of a court case and possibly losing my licensure, do to revealing a patient’s health