Which term is primarily about protecting patient privacy?

• A. Confidentiality
• B. Nursing Home Resident Rights
• C. Healthcare Culture
• D. Deductible

Answer: (A)

Protecting patient privacy is about confidentiality. Confidentiality means keeping a patient’s health information private and sharing it only with people who need to know in order to provide care, and only with proper authorization. In practice, this means speaking about patients in private areas, not leaving charts where others can see them, securing electronic records, and sharing information only with those who have a legitimate need to know, in line with laws and facility policies like HIPAA. The other terms don’t focus on this specific responsibility: nursing home resident rights cover a broad set of protections for residents, healthcare culture refers to the environment and norms of the workplace, and a deductible is a financial term unrelated to privacy.