• Crit Care Nurs Q · May 1999

    Case Reports

    The real meaning of patient-nurse confidentiality.

    • M Cochran.
    • University of Massachusetts, Adjunct Faculty, College of Management, Suffolk University, Boston, USA.
    • Crit Care Nurs Q. 1999 May 1; 22 (1): 42-51.

    AbstractCritical care nurses learn early in their careers that patient confidentiality is to be respected. Challenges to this belief come when public safety or justice seems to outweigh any individual's privacy. The resolution of the problem caused by such competing values may not be easy for a nurse and will necessarily demand examination of legal, ethical, and professional responsibilities.

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