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Confidentiality

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Fidelity is the act of keeping one's promise. You tell a patient that you will return to check on them after a procedure and do so is an example of fidelity. Confidentiality is also and example of fidelity keeping a patients information private. Working at a hospital you observe ethic concepts on a daily basis. Confidentiality of a patients records is a promise that every hospital employee should adhere to, we all sign a paper stating that we will. A few months ago a former co-worker was hospitalized at the hospital I work at. Over the course of her stay many of my co-worker were calling other former co-workers that she was in the hospital. After her transfer one of my co-workers were constantly given me updates about her health. I told her
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