When communicating with other professionals, it is important for home care nurses to:
a. ask others what they want to know.
b. share everything known about the family.
c. restrict communication to clinically relevant information.
d. recognize that confidentiality is not possible.
ANS: C
The nurse will need to share, through both oral and written communication, clinically relevant information with other involved health professionals. Asking others what they want to know and sharing everything known about the family is inappropriate. Patients have a right to confidentiality. The nurse is not permitted to share information about clients, except clinically relevant information that pertains to the child's care. Confidentiality permits the disclosure of information to other health professionals on a need-to-know basis.
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