Confidentiality Case Studies

Please remember this case has not been to court. That is why the names and location are not disclosed.

Adults who work with children and young people will come to know most of the personal information like date of birth, address and contact details and also sensitive information like behavioural issues, some medical information, family background, whether parents are divorcing and so on. It is the responsibility of the adult to keep this information confidential. They must protect the identity of the child they work with and that of their families and carers. They must do everything in their power to protect the privacy of every child and adult.

Criteria: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3-Review the groups and individuals whose communication needs you must address in your work role. Explain how you support effective communication within your work role. Analyse the barriers and challenges to communication within your work role.

On January 4th, 2014 Jane, who is a Medical Technologist checks-in ER where she works due to an illness and not feeling so good. Doctor orders routine lab tests, including HIV 1/2. One of the technologists Sarah, who is her coworker performs the rapid HIV immediately. Her HIV Test becomes positive and to be specific, it was positive for p24 antigen. Sarah conveyed the information to her best friend who also works in the laboratory. All this information eventually was passed on to me as a compliance officer. Britch of confidentiality, in this case, is a clear HIPAA violation and thereby disclosing Protected Health Information to others are violating the law. I interviewed all of the staff who were

Overall, both sides of the argument make very valid points when it comes to patient/partner confidentiality, autonomy, and the moral obligation of the individuals who willing know that they are infected with HIV/AIDS to tell their sexual partner. As stated before, I firmly believe that any individual who engages in sexual activity with a partner are ethically and morally obligated to tell them if they are aware that they are in fact carrying the HIV/AIDS virus. To me, this is a very important aspect to help in the prevention and control of the deadly epidemic of the HIV/AIDS virus. Quite simply put, “the individual who knows that he is HIV seropositive or who has reason to believe that he may be, has a moral duty to forewarn prospective partners of his HIV status and is responsible for their fate if he does not” (Erin & Harris,

It becomes more difficult to take the most ethical course of action when HIV or AIDS is encountered given that they have own ethical issues (Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, 2000). Many such patients desire to avoid pubic judgment because of the fact that HIV can be transferred through sexual activity and by sharing drug equipment. They need their privacy to be maintained and their problem to be solved, therefore professionals working at the agency should respect these rights and prevent discrimination of persons with HIV/AIDS, or labeling with “drug user” or “homosexual” (Newcomb & Bentler,

CC received phone call from James McMcullen stating that the member gave him my number and told to call if he had any questions about the member. CC told that because of confidential law she was not allow to discuss anything about the member. However, he states that the member has been staying in his abandon houses and he want him out of his houses. CC told him that he need to call the police if he will not leave. Mr. McMcullen states that he does not have a problem with the member and states that he did agree to leave the property he just need to find some place to take his things. CC also told him that the member did threathen to burn down his houses. Mr. McMcullen states he did tell him that but he was drunk and very upset. Mr. McMcullen

MAPSYLITE will protect results, inventions and intellectual property through patenting and confidentiality agreements. The Consortium Agreement (CA), based on the MGA (General model grant agreement) model for H2020 consortium agreements, will define details on exploitation of the MAPSYLITE results. As agreed in the CA, project outputs and inventions will be owned by the partner that generates them. Partners of the consortium will have the possibility through a proper compensation for the inventor to obtain licenses to exploit the results. Included or excluded background, owned by each partners will be defined in the CA

The subject I intend to reflect upon is confidentiality within a professional healthcare setting. Confidentiality formed a part of our professional issues lectures and it piqued my interest due to how differently it is interpreted within healthcare as opposed to education, which is my background. In an educational setting I was taught repeatedly that I could never ensure confidentiality between myself and a child. Comparing that to what I have now learnt in healthcare, this seemed to me almost the opposite way of working as I was used to and so I wish to reflect upon this.

Although confidentiality is considered to be of great importance in therapeutic relationship, one must not assume it to be independent. In particular, confidentiality ought to be compromised whenever it conflicts with a higher moral value, such as the duty to safeguard human life. Most often physicians do not know if to disclose the HIV status of their patients to known contacts or if failure to do so may give rise to liability if the known contact becomes HIV positive. This is one of the most controversial issues in reporting and partner notification

As a social worker I would first have a private meeting with Jeanne to assess the reason why she is withholding this deadly information from her longtime male partner. I would also offer resources in helping her understand the diagnoses of HIV as well as the risks that is associated with it. Such as engaging in sexual activity without using protection with her partner without him knowing her prognosis. In addition, from a social worker point of few, this is ethical concern and thus is wrong from the perceptive of the code of ethics on social work. As the social worker I will explain to her what is in my scope of practice verse what is concern ethically wrong. I will let informed the Jeanne that it is deceptive and legally wrong. I would

HIV is a heavy topic, due to the fact, a vast number of Americans are affected with this disease. However, when we are faced with a situation that includes HIV that could possibly have a devastating impact on a relative life what do we do? This question is answered by a statement that you quoted in your discussion, “In the vast majority of circumstances, a patient’s HIV status should not be revealed to anyone else without the patient’s explicit informed consent, for both legal and ethical reasons” (Symington, 2013). It is not our duty as healthcare professions to inform the public of any patient’s health conditions. It is the patient’s right to trust that the healthcare system will keep all their information private. “It is concluded that

St. Augustine once said that -‘an unjust law is no law at all’. The cases which we are going to examine are that two young employees of security organizations who decided for themselves that ‘an unjust law is no law at all’. The first person is Edward Snowden who has become very familiar for many of us since the summer of 2013 Snowden was a contract techie who worked for various key organizations like NSA. He got access to tons of private data gathered by these organizations and spilled it to the world. Snowden started his career as a system administrator for CIA. In March 2013, he joined BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON, the firm where he worked for NSA (MacAskill, E.

Everyone is entitled to confidentiality unless they give permission for someone else to see their information or they can no longer make decisions on their own (for example, if they are confused or comatose). A federal law, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act applies to most health care physicians and its guideline, known as the Privacy Rule. The Privacy Rule sets specific rules regarding privacy, access, and disclosure of information. For example, HIPAA specifies the following:

In contrast if the patient still insists on not telling the partner on their situation, even though I am going to still make the report but I will also try to make efforts to educate the client to notify the partners. There would be ways to strategies to encourage and ensure the patient to willingly notify their partner. Part of my strategy would be to; i) couple counselling, even if there is some reluctance to continue., ii) educating them on the benefits of disclosure, iii) seeking consent from the patients to directly inform their partners in the patients' presence in scenarios where patients lacked the courage to do so personally, and iv) I would try to contact the people involved in this situation that they are in the possibility of exposure to HIV without releasing the identity of my client (Njozing et al.2011)