- NCCAOM Approved for Ethics 2 hours
- Define the terms confidential information and confidentiality.
- Identify the relationship of a patient's legal right to privacy with his reasonable expectations regarding confidential information.
- Describe how the telling and keeping of secrets is relevant to understanding the importance of confidentiality.
- Discuss the ethical norms involved in keeping and breaking professional confidences.
- Name five general legal exceptions to the professional standard of practice that confidences should not be broken.
- Consider practical options that a professional can take when faced with the possibility of breaking a confidence.
- Discuss some important aspects of documentation that affect confidentiality.
- Compare ethical issues of confidentiality traditionally conceived with those that have arisen because of computerized medical records and patient care information systems.
- Describe the key ethical strengths and challenges of the recent U.S. federal regulations related to privacy considerations (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996).
- Read case scenarios illustrating ethical decision making
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