When communicating with other professionals about a child with a chronic illness, what is important for nurses to do?
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 in home care.
ANS: C
The nurse needs 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 are inappropriate measures. Patients have a right to confidentiality. Confidentiality permits the disclosure of information to other health professionals on a need-to-know basis.
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