Essay On Confidentiality

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The medical profession in the delivery of service to their patients is compounded with a number of factors in the treatment of their patients. According to the medical profession, they are mandated with the responsibility of delivering the best possible treatment to their patients. The aim of the paper is to perform an overall look at some of the features that are enshrined in the course of the delivery of service such as the ethical requirements and how they conflict in certain situations as well as how they can be resolved. By using the ethical consideration of confidentiality this paper will attempt to highlight those factors that are important in the delivery of service to the patients.
B. Importance of ethical theory
In the healthcare environment, healthcare practitioners are everyday faced with the responsibility of ensuring that they deliver the best form of care for their patients (Beech, 2007). Some of the decisions that the practitioners require to undertake are at times engrained with ethical dilemmas posing a challenge for the practitioners to choose what is best for their patients. By virtue of all patients being different individuals, there is the likelihood of the value systems of these individuals to differ in certain instances and some of these values are radically different (Cerit, 2012). Therefore, ethics are considered by this practitioners as the ideal tool that they can depend on when faced with ethical dilemmas in the course of delivering appropriate healthcare (Butts J. B., 2009).
Different ethical theories exist and are applicable to different scenarios and are all intended to improve the levels of thinking of the professionals as well as support in appropriate decision-making. The existent theories inclu...

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...tate this kind of situation could be when:
I) When ordered by the court
II) When determined by the ethical committee or board
III) In those situations that call for the exercising of utmost confidentiality iii) Rationale for breaking confidentiality
Many situations can arise that necessitate the breaking of confidentiality between the patient and the medical team in nursing. Situations that may arise may include instances in which the courts may require that particular information be made available to the justice system especially in criminal cases. Confidentiality may also be broken when the patient themselves is suddenly in a position or state to make informed decisions such as when they are brain dead and therefore the staff have to relay information to the guardian or family members to ensure that the best decisions for the patient are achieved and worked on.

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