Question

explain patient privacy and confidentiality, malpractice and negligence ethical dilemmas in detail.

Answer 1

Health care workers manage so many patient in their daily life,all the health care workers keep their values and ethics of the profession,in that all the personal and medical information of the patient should be kept private.

Health care workers are ethically obligated to protect patient confidentiality.A health systemwith strong privacy mechanisas will promote public confidence in healthcare services;Patient have legal right to privacy.For patient ,lack of privacy could lead to personal embarrassment,public humiliation and discrimination.The patient right to privacy involves the confidentiality of informtion related to the patient and bodily privacy of the patient and also these are vital for establishing and maintaining an effective and respectful clinical relationship.Health care workers who protect their right in order to meet patient needs,protect their presstigehonor and privacy while providing services and improve the quality of services.

Malpractice and negligence are unintentional torts,Negligence;the measurement of negligence is "reasonableness",it involves exposure of person or property of another to unreasonable risk for injury by acts of commission or omission..example of malpractice is leaving sponges inside a client;causing burns;medication errors;failure to prevent falls;and carelessness in caring for a client property.

Malpractice ;negligence performed in professional practice;any unreasonable lack of skill in professional practice;any unreasonable lack of skill in professinal duties or illegal or immoral conduct that results in injury to or death of the client.

Ethical dilemmas that may arise for patient, their fmily members ,medical staff members and physicians,A problem in the decision -making process between two possible but unacceptable options from an ethical perspective;some examples are ;Taking credit for others work,offering a client a worse product for our own profit.Ethical dilemmas are extermely complicated challenges that cannot be easily solved.THerefore the ability to find the optimal solution for ethical dilemmas is critical to everyone.we can choose these things to find solution to the problem; these are Refute the dilemma,value theory approach,find alternative solutons in some cases.Four common nursing ethical dilemmas are informed concent,disclosing medical conditions,incopetence among peers,boader ethical issues.We can avoid these problem in our work to maintaine our quality of work by using code of ethics.