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Recognising the service user’s rights to confidentiality
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Working to quality practice in care settings: TASK 3: Recognising the service user's rights to confidentiality Assessment Objective Number 3 What does 'confidentiality' mean? Confidentiality has a very broad significance and meaning, especially in health and social care settings. Confidentiality is of the utmost importance; for the service user it means being able to say something without fear of it going any further. It's being confident that your details are secure and private. For the care worker it's where you keep other peoples personal information secure and secret. Confidentiality is where discretion is always maintained. Personal, private, restricted and secret are a few very significant, alternative meanings surrounding the word confidential that are provided in the thesaurus! Any service user in your care has the right to feel secure; they need to be able to trust you with a conviction that you will not betray that trust. The carer plays a huge part in...
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