Confidentiality

Gray Scenario Winter break was almost approaching at New High School as I received notification from all the teachers indicating which students were failing their grades. I started to make arrangement to meet individually with each student to discuss their grades and try to problem solve how to best help each student to raise their grades. The following days I started spending the majority of the time with some students. It was M.L.’s turns, he was a freshman and it was his first time being at…

We would need to adapt the way we communicate with children and young people as they may not completely understand what we are saying. For example, the younger the person is the more simpler and clearer we should communicate. If the child is very young, we would need to talk in a way they would understand. This can include talking in a generally more simple way. We may need to talk with a different tone of voice than we usually would to keep the child engaged, as the may get distracted easily…

Ethical Dilemma III – Proprietary or Confidential Information Proprietary or confidential information goes beyond patents, copyrights or trade secrets. It includes the business, financial, marketing and service plans associated with products; designs, engineering and manufacturing know-how and processes; the company business and product plans with outside suppliers and customers; manufacturing performance data; product test results; a variety of internal databases; and personnel and salary…

In appropriate self-disclosure, it is important to use restriction of what information to divulge to clients and to assess if there is any underlying reasoning why the social worker feels compelled to the information (Kirst-Ashman & Hull, 2018). Self-disclosure, while seemingly well-intended, can possible result in adverse effects. As Kirst-Ashman and Hull state (2018), responses to clients must be given with tactfulness (p.83). Self-disclosure is disadvantageous when it involves the…

1. My main dilemma is whether or not to take the Judge’s suggestion and pose as Alex’s father. 2. It is unethical and against the law for me to pose as Alex’s parent for the express purpose of obtaining medical records that both myself and the judge have no legal right to possess. Even if I were to act upon the judge’s suggestion and find out that Alex had HIV, the evidence could not be used in court against the mother due to the manner in which it was obtained. Another dilemma is whether to…

Disclosure of an illness is dependent on the level of severity the disease may have on performing a task and or the safety of the person. There is a difference between disclosing an illness in a personal setting and in a professional setting. In a professional work setting disclosure of the illness especially if it adds physical limitations or information that may be needed if an accident were to happen. MS is a disease that will impact the ability to work and it sometimes can lead to…

This article is about the ruling of the Commonwealth Court that employers are not required to keep the drug and alcohol test results of an employee confidential. The Pennsylvania Drug and Alcohol Abuse Control Act, which bars disclosure of the substance and addiction treatment records of a patient to third parties, was unanimously ruled by a three-judge panel that it does not apply to the drug and alcohol test results of an employee. It all started with the recent case of In the Matter of the…

Kluemper, N. S. (2014). Published case reports: One Woman’s account of having her confidentiality violated. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 29(18), 3232-3244. This journal article is a personal account of someone whose confidentiality was broken indirectly. The writer had suffered sexual abuse as a young girl and the parent’s divorced and went through a custody battle. The custody battle was long and brutal. The girl had reported to her dad that she was sexually abused by her mother and a…

IMPORTANCE OF PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY IN PATIENT AND FAMILY CENTRED CARE Assignment -1 Importance of privacy and confidentiality in patient and family centered care Gurpreet Kaur Bains LHC 1014 Patient and Family Centred Care Instructor: Junie Facey Lambton College Patient and family centred care establishes the quality, safety and delivery of health care by framing the relationship between patient, their families and health care expertise that facilitates the…

The topic I choose was client confidentiality, “client confidentiality is the principle that a business or individual not to disclose information about a client to a third party”. This is a term you may have heard a doctor or a lawyer use. In those fields it important to gain your clients trust because they are entrusting you sometimes with private and sensitive information about their selves. Can you imagine your doctor sharing your health information with your friends? Would that make you…