HSS 2321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Outline Of Health Sciences, Unemployment Benefits, The Employer

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 2321
• Professor: Kirsti Bissada

Document Summary

Most professionals are subject to strict codes of conduct enshrining rigorous ethical and moral obligaions. Professional standards of pracice and ethics for a paricular ield are typically agreed upon and maintained through widely recognized professional associaions. Example of professional standards: standard for college of nurses of ontario. Each health profession college set and enforces standards of pracice set out to provide the public with safe, ethical care. An act or an omission that is in breach of these accepted ethical and professional standards of conduct. Class example: nurse who took care of a woman with alzheimer"s but had an afair with her paient"s husband. Ethics are concerned with moral principles, values and standards of conduct. The ield of health and health care raises numerous ethical concerns, related to: health care delivery professional integrity data handling, use of human subjects in research the applicaion of new techniques - gene manipulaion. Increase health care professionals" contribuion to shaping the health-care system.