Ethics Flashcards
(16 cards)
5 Attributes of a profession:
1 Common Body of Knowledge 2 Code of ethics 3 Continued Education 4 Undergone particular training 5 Representative professional organisation.
What is a professional person, how does he/she act?
- Have a personality that clients would enjoy
- Doesn’t boast
- Listens
- Dresses appropriately
- Doesn’t get over excited about things
- Uses appropriate language
- Shows respect to the client
- Impartial - Doesn’t judge
What does the Hippocratic oath encourage doctors to do, not to do, and how to act ?
- To heal not kill
- Pass teachings onto other students
- Have respect for patients
- Don’t act mischievous
- Don’t engage in sexual relation’s with patients
- Ensure patients privacy
How do changes in ethics codes come about – who changes them ??
- Religion – popularity, have it taken out of oaths
- Feminist movements
- Society
What is the purpose of the HPCA
- Protect the health and safety of the public
- oversees responsible authorities ensuring all health practitioners registered with them are fully competent in the practice of their profession.
Breifly describe the NZMA principles of ethics
- Health and well-being of the patient is priority
- Respect rights, autonomy and freedom of choice of the patient
- Dont exploit the patient
- Work to the best of your ability with moral integrity, compassion and respect for human dignity
- Protect the patient’s private information throughout his/her lifetime and following death
- Strive to continue education
- Remember limits of current knowledge
- Honour the traditions, values and principles of the profession which best serves the patient
- Know own limits of knowledge
- Try and assist and improve community health
- Maintain standards of profession
What was the declaration of Helsinki?
- It is a statement of ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects
- including research on identifiable human material and data
What are the three fundamental ethical principles for using any human subjects for research are:
- Respect for persons: protecting the autonomy of all people and treating them with courtesy and respect and allowing for informed consent. Researchers must be truthful and conduct no deception;
- Beneficence: The philosophy of “Do no harm” while maximizing benefits for the research project and minimizing risks to the research subjects
- Justice: ensuring reasonable, non-exploitative, and well-considered procedures are administered fairly — the fair distribution of costs and benefits to potential research participants — and equally.
What is Moral Blindness
When people leave morals/ethics aside conveniently or consciously. Reputation, pressures can affect this
What are the 4 Guiding Principles for Research
Autonomy
Justice
Beneficence
Non-Maleficence
Autonomy:
- Freedom to give consent to their participation in a study
- Consent is informed
Beneficence:
- Acting in the public good;
- how their research study might be of benefit to participants, groups and/or wider society.
Non-maleficence:
- To consider the harm that their research project might cause.
- Research should minimise and manage risks of harm, such as the risk of physical or psychological harm
Justice
- treating others equitably
- distributing burdens and benefits fairly.
3 examples of research misconduct:
Fabrication
Falsification
Plagiarism
What is Ghost writing:
– Companies do the research and put someone else’s name to it
- Misconduct leaving out the main authors, and not being truthful
