NURSING

Aspect Of The Law Confidentiality In Relation To The Role Of An Adult Nurse

Aspect Of The Law Confidentiality In Relation To The Role Of An Adult Nurse

Introduction

An adult nursing is a highly respectable profession in which a health care provider or the group of health care providers provide their caring services to the healthcare settings in the societies and provide intensive and thorough care to the patients. The profession of nursing requires the nurses to apply their enhanced information and knowledge in delivering the care services to the individual patients. The nurses are required to have the skills of problem solving, decision making and they must have the ability to manage with the change in the environment and in the circumstances. They must also possess the analytical and clinical skills in order to provide the best level of care services to the patients.

The nurses have to make the decisions by taking into considerations the laws and ethical standards that are defined by the legislations. In order to take the effective and efficient decisions, the nurses are requires to comply with the ethics and laws.

Importance of the aspect of the law in adult nursing

There is various aspects o law that comes under the profession of adult nursing. These aspects of law have great importance as these provide the guidelines and the frame works to the nurses in practicing their care services. These aspects mainly involve the care standards, the policies and procedures, the ethical standards and the confidentiality.

This paper aims at discussing the confidentiality law aspect of nursing. The following section involves all the aspects relating to the confidentiality and the impact of those aspects upon the decision makings of the nurses.

Discussion

Confidentiality aspect of law under NHS Code of Practice (2003)

In United Kingdom, the law relating to the confidentiality in the nursing profession is laid down in the NHS Code of Practice (2003). The codes of conduct that are outlined in the NHS Code of Practice (2003) ensure that the health care staffs have the complete knowledge regarding their obligations to protect the confidentiality of the patients. The standard codes require the nurses to comply with the rules and laws that are defined so as to provide the quality services to the patient with which the patient fully satisfies. The confidentiality is the part of the health care practices that must be implemented in delivering the care services.

The confidentiality aspect requires that all the information regarding the patient must be protected and it must be used with ethical considerations wherever needed. The overall aim of the confidentiality aspect outlined by the NHS Code of Practice (2003) involves the following factors.

Protection of the patient's information: it is the responsibility of the nursing staff to protect the data and information provided by the patient because the patient naturally feels uncomfortable when its personal information is disclosed.

Inform the patient: when the medical staffs require using the information or the disclose of the information that is provided by the patient, they must ...