Sexual Health Flashcards
When can we disclose information to someone other than the patient with the communicable disease?
- Person is at risk of infection that would result in serious harm
- Patient hasn’t and can’t be convinced to tell them
What should we consider when a medical professional gets a communicable disease e.g. HIV?
Their wellbeing
Their patients wellbeing
Future employment
Privacy
How can we ensure the patients wellbeing?
Ensure the professional’s disease is treated and non-communicable
Look back exercise to screen patients who may have caught it
How can we help the professional with their employment?
If they are properly treated they can go back to work
However some provisions may have to be made that give them away to colleagues and patients, this can be a major barrier to coming forward
How can we maintain a professionals privacy?
Ensure they are treated in a different clinic/hospital and that all their records are confidential
