Privacy and confidentiality of patient information is increasingly challenging in the digital era. A patient was photographed during delivery and the photo was posted online without consent. Advances in technology like smartphones allow easy sharing of private patient information. Healthcare professionals must respect patient privacy and only disclose information with prior agreement. Maintaining privacy requires vigilance as technology is used more in healthcare. Strict privacy policies and educating staff help protect patients' right to privacy and build trust in the healthcare system.
Confidentiality can be defined as the
ethical principle or legal right that a
physician or other health professional will
hold secret all information relating to a
patient, unless the patient gives consent
permitting disclosure.
Confidentiality can be defined as the
ethical principle or legal right that a
physician or other health professional will
hold secret all information relating to a
patient, unless the patient gives consent
permitting disclosure.
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The lecture is entitled after a quote from e-Patient Dave will illustrate how the changes that the healthcare industry and the health of patients will go through are linked to patients and should be for patients. The digital and mobile tools have opened up the opportunity to receive real life continues data and revolutionize medicine is being done, but how will patients use it, how they are involved and what will happen to their health.
Stories, numbers and forward looking statements will paint a picture of the here and now, and the future.
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Healthcare providers now have a whole host of tools and resources at their fingertips to access real-time data, monitor patients remotely and make better care decisions. This access to better data frees the patient from the physical restraints of the hospital environment. This lessens the dependence on admitting patients into large hospitals for extended stays at exorbitant costs to both payers and patients.
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COVID-19 & Personal BeliefsValuesThe COVID pandemic has had a tCruzIbarra161
COVID-19 & Personal Beliefs/Values
The COVID pandemic has had a tremendous effect on the worldview surrounding my current nursing work. While many of the realizations focus on the imperativeness of nursing it also exposed areas that could need improvement in the future. Therefore, the values I had placed before are now replaced by new ones and new avenues for progression are made clear. In this paper I will be exploring how COVID-19 influenced my values and personal beliefs while offering an example.
Personal Beliefs/Values
Due to the pandemic, more awareness is being brought to the crucial work that is done by nurses. This has highlighted certain aspects of the work we do as nurses and how we could further shape the way our care is delivered. While new information was being given surrounding the possible medical consequences of having COVID, I found a new-found value in relying on evidence-based information. Throughout this period, it was easy to fall into the pit of misinformation. However, we as nurses must use our critical thinking and examine the evidence to then apply it in our work. This would result in an inability to comprehend “the risk of being infected.” (Fernandez et al, 2020) Our patients rely on us to provide them with up-to-date information that is based on clinical evidence. This is how we can truly provide the highest standard of patient care. This newfound belief and important value have only been more pronounced ever since COVID had started. Importance can be greater appreciated when recognizing the need of the nursing staff to “meet the exponential increase” (Smith et al, 2022) laid by COVID.
Example
The case for establishing a strong reliance on evidence-based practice is most notable when having experience seeing the problem. Multiple instances at work I have seen my coworkers engaging in passing information that is not academically accurate. I had a fellow RN who could not answer COVID questions when asked of how the virus works within the body. Because of these moments I make sure to keep up to date with the latest from the CDC and academic sources.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the pandemic has opened my eyes to what values should be enhanced and where beliefs should be derived from. The need for nurses to educate themselves when a global disaster has been highlighted by countless instances where critical thinking is needed. Data that can be verified clinically is vital to continuing to provide better patient care and lead to better patient outcomes.
References
Fernandez, R., Lord, H., Halcomb, E., Moxham, L., Middleton, R., Alananzeh, I., & Ellwood, L. (2020). Implications for COVID-19: A systematic review of nurses' experiences of working in acute care hospital settings during a respiratory pandemic. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 111, 103637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2020.103637 (Links to an external site.)
Smith, S. J., & Farra, S. L. (2022). The impact of covid-19 on the regulation of nursing p ...
Security, Confidentiality and Privacy in Health of Healthcare Dataijtsrd
Background One of the most important facts that should be considered is confidentiality in order to maintain privacy turning out to be matters of security. Keeping up confidentiality is a crucial factor in any field, as well as health realms. Professionals who have the ingress to approach the patients' communications must keep confidentiality in health. The priority for any human being is privacy to information especially related to health. Security enables us to live peacefully, without anxiety and in full insurance. Methods The interpretive methodology was used in this research as it gives an impression of face to face interactions in healthcare bringing in social reality of what is happening in the health society.Results In consultations on gathering these results for our research, we also realized that the most common threats of loss of data and theft come under certain types of disclosures mainly third parties, routine and inadvertent. Upon this realization, there must be notification to protect security, confidentiality and privacy when security breaches occur mainly to patients. As a result, patients must provide consent about their medical information in electronically form or in writing and the consent must be signed by the patient or family member or trusted entity. The patients must come clear on the nature of the information to be disclosed and where it should be disclosed and also when the consent should expire. At the same time, a health facility must take care of the institution's database and can only disclose to the management of the health institution whose obligation would also be to protect the data, as they might need the information for research purposes, where the researchers have approval from their institution's or to legal representatives.Conclusion The advent of the hype of electronic information technology leads to major inconvenience in the main areas of human life. This manuscript explores issues in maintaining confidentiality and privacy in healthcare and other analysis of its value to individual and society as a whole. “Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.†Tim Cook 2016 1 Jomin George | Takura Bhila ""Security, Confidentiality and Privacy in Health of Healthcare Data"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-4 , June 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd23780.pdf
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Defecation
Normal defecation begins with movement in the left colon, moving stool toward the anus. When stool reaches the rectum, the distention causes relaxation of the internal sphincter and an awareness of the need to defecate. At the time of defecation, the external sphincter relaxes, and abdominal muscles contract, increasing intrarectal pressure and forcing the stool out
The Valsalva maneuver exerts pressure to expel faeces through a voluntary contraction of the abdominal muscles while maintaining forced expiration against a closed airway. Patients with cardiovascular disease, glaucoma, increased intracranial pressure, or a new surgical wound are at greater risk for cardiac dysrhythmias and elevated blood pressure with the Valsalva maneuver and need to avoid straining to pass the stool.
Normal defecation is painless, resulting in passage of soft, formed stool
CONSTIPATION
Constipation is a symptom, not a disease. Improper diet, reduced fluid intake, lack of exercise, and certain medications can cause constipation. For example, patients receiving opiates for pain after surgery often require a stool softener or laxative to prevent constipation. The signs of constipation include infrequent bowel movements (less than every 3 days), difficulty passing stools, excessive straining, inability to defecate at will, and hard feaces
IMPACTION
Fecal impaction results from unrelieved constipation. It is a collection of hardened feces wedged in the rectum that a person cannot expel. In cases of severe impaction the mass extends up into the sigmoid colon.
DIARRHEA
Diarrhea is an increase in the number of stools and the passage of liquid, unformed feces. It is associated with disorders affecting digestion, absorption, and secretion in the GI tract. Intestinal contents pass through the small and large intestine too quickly to allow for the usual absorption of fluid and nutrients. Irritation within the colon results in increased mucus secretion. As a result, feces become watery, and the patient is unable to control the urge to defecate. Normally an anal bag is safe and effective in long-term treatment of patients with fecal incontinence at home, in hospice, or in the hospital. Fecal incontinence is expensive and a potentially dangerous condition in terms of contamination and risk of skin ulceration
HEMORRHOIDS
Hemorrhoids are dilated, engorged veins in the lining of the rectum. They are either external or internal.
FLATULENCE
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FECAL INCONTINENCE
Fecal incontinence is the inability to control passage of feces and gas from the anus. Incontinence harms a patient’s body image
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1. PRIVACY OF PATIENTS IN DIGITAL ERA
Dr.T.V.Rao MD
I was reading an article in the Deccan Chronicle Dated 22rd September 2014 ( Kerala
Edition ) that the Patient was photographed during delivery and put on WORLD WIDE WEB, I wish to
ask many is it acceptable if it happens to be your near and dear. The great lesson, my highly
qualified surgeon Dr R.S Kulkarni taught never do a physical examination of a female patient
whatever the age without a Female attendant. Never forget so many famous Doctors went into
trouble violating the modesty of a female patient. With upraise of Technology any one can
photograph, steal the patient electronic information, Today it is an issue with advances in
smartphone , 3G and broadband technology. Respect for the confidentiality of patients' information
is a basic principle of ethical and effective medical practice. It ensures individual patients' privacy,
and, more broadly, it upholds public perception of the quality of the healthcare system and its
professionals, Never forget great Institutes can lose the business with trivial litigations when basic
principle of privacy are violated I wish to clarify on privacy and confidentiality, Challenges of
Maintaining Privacy and Confidentiality, it not easy to know the difference between privacy and
confidentiality can be confusing Privacy is the right of individuals to keep information about
themselves from being disclosed; that is, people (our patients) are in control of others access to
themselves or information about themselves. Patients decide who, when, and where to share their
health information. Taking the example of HIV infection he or she can discuss the problem with thei r
kin, none of us have any right to discuss the matter beyond post-test counselling. On the other hand,
confidentiality is how we Doctors, and nurses, treat private information once it has been disclosed to
others or ourselves. This disclosure of information usually results from a relationship of trust; it
assumes that health information is given with the expectation that it will not be divulged except in
ways that have been previously agreed upon, e.g., for treatment, for payment of services, or for use
in monitoring the quality of care that is being delivered. With the increasing use of technology for
the provision of care in our fast-paced clinical environments, maintaining privacy and confidentiality
can be a daunting task, many have the habit of loose talking a grave concern in India.
Establishing and maintaining patients’ trust in their caregivers is critical to obtaining a complete
history, an accurate health record, and carrying out an effective treatment plan. If a nurse fails to
protect the patient’s privacy, the erosion in the relationship can have dire consequences to the
nurse/patient relationship, or even the Doctors. Even though most healthcare professionals know
the limits of confidentiality well, they have trouble applying them to their behaviour, more so we
have many new resident doctors who are enthusiastic to have the picture of medical procedures in
these mobiles or smartphones, and discuss undesired facts on serious patients. Next comes the
Doctors, residents and nurses discussing the condition of the patient in the moving lifts with so many
strangers may be related to patient. I am sorry that we do not have a system to protect the
confidentiality to declare a patient, he is HIV positive and the news goes viral in minutes to the
concerned and unconcerned people will lead to legal and ethical challenges to the hospital
administration, Today we find many Medical students and juniors playing the fun with the
smartphones in their hands My own observation in one hospital where I have worked the junior
doctors were playing with IPad and chatting, a little child dies under observation in the causality and
the patients relatives attribute everything to their negligence and rough up the duty Doctors and
ransack the hospital valuable instruments, however the hospital authorities have kept the CCTV
surveillance at major areas in the Hospitals, with evidence the police could not do anything and
2. blame the Doctors, for not attentive to the work, it means the patients want the attention every
stage as they are paying we are at the receiving end. The privacy and security of patient not in
effective care health information, however it is a top priority for patients and their families, health
care providers and professionals, and the government. Our laws are not clear on many matters on
cyber laws however we should have accountability and we require many of the key persons and
organizations that handle health information to have policies and security safeguards in place to
protect our health information — whether it is stored on paper or electronically. Privacy and
confidentiality are basic rights in our society and guaranteed to every citizen. Safeguarding those
rights, with respect to an individual’s personal health information, is our ethical and legal obligation
as health care providers. Doing so in today’s healthcare environment is increasingly challenging.
Every Doctor and nurse understands and respects the need for patient confidentiality. As
professionals, our connection to our patients and our colleagues depends on it. But, the truth is,
advanced technology, new demands in health care, and developments in the world-at-large, make it
more and more difficult to keep this promise. But keep it we must! It is our duty to protect the
wellbeing of those who are entrusted to our care. Protecting the integrity of the Doctor/nurse-patient
relationship and patient rights is a sacred trust. It is also our duty to periodically remind
Doctor and nurses of the importance of keeping patient information private. I wish there should be
competent control on the young doctors the ethical behaviour with digital information and should
be oriented in the Cyber laws in relation to procedures conducted as part Medical treatment, above
all patients privacy and Records.
Ref – Caring for Patients While Respecting Their Privacy: Renewing Our Commitment Jeanette Ives
Erickson, RN, MS Sally Millar, RN, MBA
Dr.T.V.Rao MD Professor of Microbiology Freelance Writer