Confidentiality/ANA Ethics & New York State Law

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A 6 page research paper that discusses the concept of patient confidentiality, which has its roots in antiquity as this idea is included in the Hippocratic Oath, which dates from the fourth century B.C. (Denbo, 2006). This examination of confidentiality looks first at the ANA Code of Ethics and then specifically at issues of confidentiality as they pertain to New York State law and also to United States law in general. Bibliography lists 6 sources.