Orthopaedic nursing
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Patients believe that personal information that they share with their health care providers will be kept strictly confidential. Safeguarding a confidence has been and continues to be an expected professional behavior. ⋯ This article discusses the inadvertent breach of confidentiality and its related ethical concepts: privacy, respect for persons, trust and fidelity, and the potential for harm or injury. Recommendations are provided to enable nurses to avoid and manage situations that involve an inadvertent breach of confidentiality.
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There are three things this presentation sought to accomplish. First, it's not the health care system you grew up with any longer. Even if you wanted to keep it, it's already gone. ⋯ You are going to be a leader and on your shoulders is going to be the expectation of providing leadership. Something in the course of our time together or your time here at the conference, resonated with your own consciousness, your own thinking, your own journey, your own experience, and your own leadership. Margaret Wheatly said in her book, Leadership in the New Science, talking about quantum mechanics applied to leadership: "The change is like a ripple; it doesn't matter where you make change, it doesn't matter how large the ripple, it doesn't matter how isolated you may feel, if you make the change it creates a ripple that ultimately changes everything".