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Professional Ethics :Professional Ethics The importance of a professional ethic
What are ethics? :What are ethics? The systematic study of rightness and wrongness of human conduct
Professional Ethic: Publicly displayed ethical conduct of a profession, embedded in a code of ethics
Right or wrong? Who decides? :Right or wrong? Who decides?
Consequences when making the WRONG choice!!!! :Consequences when making the WRONG choice!!!!
Selected Ethical principles :Selected Ethical principles Beneficence
Nonmaleficence (preventing harm)
Autonomy
Veracity
Fidelity
Justice
System comparison: Ethics, law, morals :System comparison: Ethics, law, morals Ethics
Law
Morals Group application, control within group, enabled by a code, punished by expulsion
Political subdivision controlled OUTSIDE the group, by way of legislation, punished by fines, prison
Applied by individuals, controlled by conscience, enabled by religious or cultural standards, punished by shame or guilt
Remember!! :Remember!! Knowing what is right, does not mean much unless you DO what is right!!
Case studies (class discussion) :Case studies (class discussion) Maintaining patient faithfulness (pg 309)
Identify the problem
Select the best solution
Defend you selection Do you think my Doctor is doing the right thing??
Case study # 2 :Case study # 2 Maintain patient confidentiality (pg 310)
Identify the problem
Develop an alternative solution
Select the best solution
Defend your selection
VIOLATE PATIENT CONFIDENTIALITY….AND YOU’RE TOAST!!!
Case study # 3 (pg 310) :Case study # 3 (pg 310) Observing professional discretion
“I think Dr so and so misread the film!!!!....”
What is the problem here?
What would be the ETHICAL choice?? (pg 310)
Does an RT have the professional obligation to point out a physicians error??
Case study # 4 (pg 311) :Case study # 4 (pg 311) The boundaries of professional practice
Where do your loyalties lie??
How far should our opinions go?? (pg 311)
Article 5 of the ARRT code of ethics states that the RT should always act in the patients “best interest..”
Case study # 5 (pg 311) :Case study # 5 (pg 311) Relationships with other members of the health care team
The issue of reporting possible unethical conduct of other team members (colleagues)
Again…where do our loyalties lie?...