Discuss the importance of confidentiality

Discuss the importance of confidentiality and this statement from the Nursing Midwifery Council, "as a Registered Nurse, Midwife or Health Visitor, you are personally accountable for your practice. In caring for patients and clients, you must protect confidential information", ( NMC, 2002 ). The author of this essay is a student nurse who has recently completed their first clinical placement. The placement was a day hospital for people over the age of sixty five, who were experiencing mental …

…internal complaint or used as evidence before a court of law. The law sees records as evidence of the care given and therfor anything that is not recorded is viewed as not been undertaken ( Kenworthy et al, 2002 ). The author believes that every nurse should get into the habit of recording their actions and observations accurately and professionally because it will protect them and their colleuges and also their patients or clients, as agreed by ( Woods 2002 0