Read the following scenario:
Lena is a community health care nurse who works exclusively with HIV-positive and AIDS patients. As a part
of her job, she evaluates new cases and reviews confidential information about these patients. In the course
of one of these reviews, Lena learns that her sister’s boyfriend has tested HIV positive. Lena would like to
protect her sister from harm and begins to consider how her sister can find out about her boyfriend’s health
status.
Consult at least two resources to help you establish Lena’s legal and ethical position. These resources might
include your state’s Nurse Practice Act, the ANA’s Code of Ethics, ANA’s Nursing: Scope and Standards of
Practice, and internal or external standards of care.
Consider what action you would take if you were Lena and why.
Determine whether the law and the ANA’s standards support or conflict with that action.