... exercise for professional accountability must "protect all Confidential information concerning patient and clients obtained in the course of practice, and make disclosure only when consent, where required by a court or where you can justify disclosure in the wider public interest" (Hendrick 2000). As a student nurse and not registered, there is an agreement in place that student nurses will adhere to these codes . During a placement within the community the author was working closely with the district nurses, clients were visited within their own homes and nursing homes, on one particular occasion the author visited a nursing home with the District nurse to treat a lady who I will refer to as Mrs Green this is pseudonym in order to comply with the NMC 2002 guidelines with relation to confidentiality. The author and the nurse were met in the entrance of the nursing home by the care manager who stated ...

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