Respect for your privacy
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Description of
the right
Healthcare professionals must take necessary steps to protect your privacy and intimacy.
Several examples of situations
- Pulling the curtain around your bed during interventions.
- Unless you request otherwise, keeping the door to the room shut.
- If visitors are present, making sure you are comfortable receiving care in their presence before performing any intervention.
- Leaving you alone with your newborn, your partner or your loved ones when no care is required.
References
Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms: section 5
Act respecting social services and health services: sections 3 and 5
Civil Code of Quebec: sections 3, 10, 35 and 36
Professional obligation according to many other professional orders (list of professional orders)