Invasion of privacy is defined as intrusion into a client’s what?

• A. Healthcare Policy
• B. Infringement on Property
• C. Intrusion into Private Affairs
• D. Defensive Medicine

Answer: (C)

Invasion of privacy means intruding into a person’s private life or confidential matters without consent. In a healthcare context, this is about interfering with or exposing a patient’s private affairs or information. The phrase that best captures this idea is intrusion into private affairs, since it directly describes crossing into the areas of a person’s private life that should remain confidential or undisclosed.

Choices about healthcare policy, property infringement, or defensive medicine don’t describe intruding into a patient’s private life or private information, so they don’t fit the concept as it applies to privacy violations.