Patients Should Be Informed Consent Paper

I believe that our patients have many basic rights that must always be provided, and must always be upheld. Our ethical duty as healthcare professionals ensure that we must give our patients these basic rights so we can provide the highest level of care possible. These basic rights include, privacy, respect, and also patients should be given the opportunity to give informed consent, among many other things.

First and foremost, our patients must always be provided with a high level of privacy. Privacy allows our patients to feel comfortable coming to our healthcare facility and not have to worry about their confidential medical information getting released to anyone from the outside. In order to keep the high level of privacy that we must uphold, we must always follow the strict guidelines of HIPAA and the Privacy Act and keep all of our patient’s information extremely confidential, so it allows the patient to feel at ease when they come to us to be treated. For example, if someone gets tested for a sexually

Every single one of our patients must always be treated with the same exact level of respect, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, language, etc. A patient should never feel as though they are being disrespected when they come into our facility. Our patients have enough confidence in us to come to our facility, we should never treat them any differently to make them feel that way and possibly jeopardize our patient-medical assistant relationship. For example, a patient comes into our facility that speaks a Spanish and the health care professional doesn’t speak Spanish and there is a language barrier. If the healthcare professional starts getting snippy with the patient because he/she doesn’t understand them, they are ultimately going to feel disrespected because of the way that patient is being treated and it is going to end up ruining that patient-medical professional’s