Confidentiality and privacy are essential aspects of healthcare that must be respected in order to ensure the patients privacy and safety in addition to allowing the patient to feel a higher level of invulnerability. An assistant in nursing (AIN) has policies and procedures specific to their job in the healthcare system regarding confidentiality and privacy which must be followed. These policies and procedures, as well as implications if they are breached, will be explored throughout the following essay.
The code of ethics heavily impacts on the way an AIN carry out their daily tasks and privacy and confidentiality are not only listed within the code of ethics (Value Statement 7: Nurses value ethical management of information), it is also a legal right. Confidentiality protects the patients personal information and is a “principle in medical ethics that ensures the information a patient reveals to a health care provider is private and has limits on how and when it can be disclosed to a third party.” - Dorland's Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers. Similarly, privacy is the act of keeping a patients information out of public view. Confidentiality and privacy date all the way back to classical Greece when the hippocratic oath was created. …show more content…
Privacy and Confidentiality are focused on the protection of the patient without, both physically and emotionally. By asking the patient for consent, it reassures them that their private information will not be shared with the public and they will always be notified if their information needs to be disclosed. This allows the patient to gain a higher level of trust towards those around them. By breaching privacy and confidentiality, not only are you breaking the law and making the patient vulnerable, you are also causing distrust between the patients and the health
The code of ethics heavily impacts on the way an AIN carry out their daily tasks and privacy and confidentiality are not only listed within the code of ethics (Value Statement 7: Nurses value ethical management of information), it is also a legal right. Confidentiality protects the patients personal information and is a “principle in medical ethics that ensures the information a patient reveals to a health care provider is private and has limits on how and when it can be disclosed to a third party.” - Dorland's Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers. Similarly, privacy is the act of keeping a patients information out of public view. Confidentiality and privacy date all the way back to classical Greece when the hippocratic oath was created. …show more content…
Privacy and Confidentiality are focused on the protection of the patient without, both physically and emotionally. By asking the patient for consent, it reassures them that their private information will not be shared with the public and they will always be notified if their information needs to be disclosed. This allows the patient to gain a higher level of trust towards those around them. By breaching privacy and confidentiality, not only are you breaking the law and making the patient vulnerable, you are also causing distrust between the patients and the health