Nurses' duty of conifidentiality and the consequences of its breach

The aim of my thesis was to find out what is the legal awareness of nurses in the issue of confidentiality. Furthermore, it was examined whether nurses know what are the consequences for unauthorized access to the medical records. The theoretical part of this thesis describes the mandatory confidentiality issue and its consequences. And it defines the concepts of personal and sensitive personal data. In addition the conditions under which it is required to break confidentiality and the consequences of breach of legal obligation are mentioned. Describe the legal responsibility of nurses. In the practical part of the work I use qualitative methods of data collection, interview, for me to respond to major and minor research questions. I use interviews conducted with nurses, for doing analysis of the case and to describe the measures taken by the employer at the Municipal Hospital in Litoměřice