Worryingly, the same applies to all health and care professionals, so if you want to impersonate a doctor, nurse, social worker, physiotherapist, AHP or any other kind of regulated health or care professional, this isn’t an arrestable offence.

The nursing paradigm represents global ideas about individuals, groups, situations and phenomena of interest to this discipline (Fawcett, 1995). It explains the nature of human beings, their relationship with the environment, and the human-universal-health processes (Fawcett, 1993; Parse, 2000).

They are legally enforceable, and health and social care providers have a duty to meet patients’ entitlements (Department for Constitutional Affairs, 2006).

As a nurse, midwife or nursing associate, you owe a duty of confidentiality to all those who are receiving care. This includes making sure that they are informed about their care and that information about them is shared appropriately. You can only make a ‘conscientious objection’ in limited circumstances.

The four main requirements are:

• a. PROTECT – look after the patient’s or service user’s information.
• b. INFORM – ensure that individuals are aware of how their.
• c. PROVIDE CHOICE – allow individuals to decide, where appropriate,
• d. IMPROVE – always look for better ways to protect, inform, and.

The NHS Confidentiality Code of Practice states:2’Patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information relating to their health and other matters as part of their seeking treatment.

In practice, this means that all patient/client information, whether held on paper, computer, visually or audio recorded, or held in the memory of the professional, must not normally be disclosed without the consent of the patient/client.

These 7 Caldicott principles are:

• Principle 1: Justify the purpose for using confidential information.
• Principle 2: Don’t use personal confidential data unless absolutely necessary.
• Principle 3: Use the minimum necessary personal confidential data.

Confidentiality is seen as a fundamental ethical principal in health care and a breach of confidentiality can be a reason for disciplinary action. Issues around confidentiality may be brought to a clinical ethics committee or group in the form of individual cases or in considering hospital policies.

A: Your doctor will keep the details of what you talk about private, or confidential. The only times when your doctor cannot honor your privacy is when someone is hurting you or you are going to hurt yourself or someone else.