The professional nurse realizes there is both a legal and an ethical obligation to keep client infor-mation obtained through examination, observation, conversation, or treatment:
1. Secured
2. Accessible
3. Confidential
4. Documented
ANS: 3
Nurses are legally and ethically obligated to keep information about clients confidential. Nurses may not discuss a client's examination, observation, conversation, or treatment with other clients or staff not involved in the client's care. The other options are primarily directed towards written records and are not ethically oriented.
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