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Annotated Bibliography
Monica Ayres
HCA 322: Health Care Ethics & Medical Law
Instructor Beverly Bulliner
August 10, 2015
Crigger, N., & Godfrey, N. S. (2011). The making of nurse professionals: A transformational, ethical approach. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
This book strengthens professional nursing education by reframing professionalism and professional ethics as part of a transformational process of individual development, that when combined with other ethical traditions, forms a framework to better educate students to become nurse professionals.
Quallich, S. A. (2002). Issues of Confidentiality. Urologic Nursing, 22(5), 340.
This article explains that sharing of the patient’s information with anyone including his or her family members, without the patient’s information, is a breach of confidentiality and privacy on the part of the patient. Should a patient accept that information about his or her health condition and medication can be shared with his or her family members then this should be documented clearly so that the information may then be shared. The patient can only show his permission by signing a release of information document.
Follin, S. A., & Springhouse Corporation. (2004). Nurse's legal handbook. Philadelphia, Pa: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Nurses have a professional and ethical responsibility to protect their patients’ privacy, whether they are RN or LPN. This responsibility requires more than keeping secrets. The nurses may have to educate their patients about their privacy rights since some of the patients may be unaware of what the rights to privacy means, or that they even have such rights. The nurses have a role to explain to the patient that he can refuse to allow pictures to be taken of his disorder and its treatment. For instance a nurse can tell the patient that he can choose to have information about his condition withheld from others, including family. The nurse has a duty of making every effort to ensure that the patient’s wishes are carried out.
Moore, I. N., Snyder, S. L., Miller, C., An, A. Q., Blackford, J. U., Chuan, Z., & Hickson, G. B. (2007). Confidentiality And Privacy In Health Care From The Patient's Perspective: Does HIPAA Help?. Health Matrix: Journal Of Law-Medicine, 17(2), 215-272.
It is important that the nurse keeps information about the patient private and confidential as per the wishes of the patient. However, under certain circumstances, a nurse may lawfully disclose confidential information about his or her patient against the patient’s wishes. For instance, the courts allow disclosure when the welfare of a person or a group of people is at stake. Considering a patient who is diagnosed as an epileptic and asks the nurse to not disclose to the members of the family, based on the instance, and the nurse may also make the decision that this is not in the family’s, nor the patient’s, best interest, especially when discussing the overall safety. In such a situation, it would be best for the nurse to inform the patient’s physician who may then inform the patient’s family for his or her well-being.
Buppert, C. (2008). Nurse practitioner's business practice and legal guide. Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett.
This book stipulates that it is a risk to breach patient’s confidentiality. Breach of privacy is an intentional tort and can be the basis for a law suit by a patient. Breach of privacy also can be malpractice, the basis for a disciplinary action by a state’s board of nursing, and a violation of state and federal law.
Sullivan, J. M., & American Bar Association. (2004). HIPAA: A practical guide to the privacy and security of health data. Chicago, Ill: American Bar Association, Health Law Section.
The authors outline the ways through which NPs can breach a patient’s confidentiality as: talking about a patient within earshot of others; releasing medical information about a patient without prior written permission; discussing a patient’s condition with family members; leaving a telephone message on a patient’s answering machine; leaving the patient’s records within view; discarding unshredded duplicate records; and giving a patient’s name and address to a vendor.
