PHTY102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Physical Therapy, Professional Boundaries, Jargon
Ethics in Physiotherapy
•Describe the features of health-care ethics
•Discuss ethical principles which guide physiotherapy practice
•Identify appropriate professional boundaries for physiotherapy practice
•Outline the consequences of professional misconduct by a physiotherapist
•Identify the features of informed consent
What is culture?
The behaviours and belief characteristics of a particular social, ethnic or age group. Commonly
known to refer to attitudes, beliefs, customs, language, religion commonly shared within a group.
Cultural and linguistic competence:
A set of congruent behaviours, attitudes, and policies that come together among professionals and
enable effective work in cross-cultural situations.
Physiotherapy Registration Board:
3.7 Culturally safe and sensitive practice – Good practice involves genuine efforts to understand
the cultural needs and contexts of different patients or clients to obtain good health outcomes.
Advantages of cultural competency:
•Cultural and linguistically appropriate services reduce racial and ethnic health care disparities
•minority racial and ethnic groups- higher rates of disease, disability and death and receive a
lower quality of health care
•Those who demonstrate ethnic exclusivity and strong family hierarchy have a high scepticism of
medical care
•There are differences by providers in referral to health care services
A culturally competent healthcare setting:
•A culturally diverse staff that reflects the community served
•Providers or translators who speak the client’s language
•Training for providers about the culture and language of the people they serve
•Signage and instructional literature in the clients language and consistent with their cultural
norms
•cultural specific healthcare settings
Cultural competency is:
•The ability to interact successfully with people of different cultures- race, gender, sexual
orientation and language
•critical self awareness of one’s own values, biases and assumptions
•respect for a variety of interpretations regarding health care
•use of inclusive dialogue
•Programs to recruit and retain staff members who reflect
•the cultural diversity of the community served
•use of interpreter services or bilingual providers for clients with limited English proficiency
•cultural competency training for healthcare providers
•use of linguistically and culturally appropriate health education materials
•Cultural specific healthcare settings
APA code of conduct:
“APA members must respect the rights, needs and dignity of all individuals.”
We must be aware of our own:
•personal attitudes
•beliefs
•values
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Document Summary
Ethics in physiotherapy: describe the features of health-care ethics, discuss ethical principles which guide physiotherapy practice, identify appropriate professional boundaries for physiotherapy practice, outline the consequences of professional misconduct by a physiotherapist, identify the features of informed consent. The behaviours and belief characteristics of a particular social, ethnic or age group. Commonly known to refer to attitudes, beliefs, customs, language, religion commonly shared within a group. A set of congruent behaviours, attitudes, and policies that come together among professionals and enable effective work in cross-cultural situations. 3. 7 culturally safe and sensitive practice good practice involves genuine efforts to understand the cultural needs and contexts of different patients or clients to obtain good health outcomes. Apa members must respect the rights, needs and dignity of all individuals. We must be aware of our own: personal attitudes, beliefs, values, biases, prejudices. Strategies for interacting with people from different cultures: Listen- with sympathy/ empathy and understanding to patient"s perception.
