Question

a.Discuss the importance of privacy and confidentiality of your client’s information.
B.Give an example of how a client’s privacy may be breached in your industry

C.Describe two circumstances under which a worker can, in compliance with the law, disclose confidential information to others

d.Use the Internet to access the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Explain how Article 25 is relevant to people in a community/residential or homecare setting.

e.List three situations involving a client’s physical health that would be beyond the scope of your own role, and what you would do in each of those situations.

Answer 1

Answer 1. The details or the informations about the patient are very important to he kept as private or confidential because, it helps to build and develop faith of the client for the system. And this faith keeps the flow of mutual relation between the patient and the health care staff for the ease in treatments. This confidentiality provides secured feeling and the importance of self for the patients. By doing this, the moral support stays for the patient that their illness or medical history, or treatment, or medicines, etc are not shared with anyone else, which might had an impact on their lives later on.

Answer 2. Breach of confidentiality means the sharing or the leakage of the patient's information to the third source, and that too without the patient's consent. It affects the image of health care systems, its staff and its ethics. Along with it, the faith for doctors by the clients is distributed. This breach is either made by the employees or through the sharing or error in the protected health systems.

For example, when a nurse either intentionally or by mistake share the condition or the illness of one of her patient to her colleague nurse, because of which the staff started behaving inappropriately with that client. This emotion or treatment is always offended by the patients. This results in the breach of privacy. After such incidents, the patient can sue the organisation or hospital authorities to violate the laws or ethics of keeping the privacy and not sharing with anyone, especially without the consent of the patient.

Answer 3. It is totally illegal and unethical to share one's privacy with any other without the consent. The confidentiality should be maintained to have a strong bond between the health care staff and the patients. But sometimes the conditions demand to change the rules. In some cases like,

. When the patient is in critical state, and the decisions to treatment go pending beacuse of the consent of patient to not to share his/her information. In such conditions, the doctors consult the key members of the health care team, and the client is informed about this step in regard of community care. This is how the sharing of information is done, without taking the consent of the patient.

. In some conditions, the patient is not in clear mental status or due to the fear of after effects of sharing, that is, he/she is abusive, dangerous or suicidal if their information is shared, etc. In such cases, the third party involvement is needed to take the decision.

Answer 4. According to the Article 25, every individual has the right to have a standard of living as an adequate life in the form of health and well-being for himself and for his family too. This well being includes food, clothing, housing and medical care and all other basic necessary social services. Also, the right to security in the sudden event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age, etc which are beyond his control, are the part of this article.

This article also mentioned about the specificity of benefits given to mothers and her children on priority basis.

This article is totally in favor of humanity. It is clear in its words that every individual should be provided all the necessaties of life. This article confirms and ensures the importace of life and quality of life for people,especially for mothers and her children.