PHL 302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: British Rail Class 04, Implied Consent, Primum Non Nocere
13 May 2016
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Ethics is nothing more than a generic term for the study of how we make judgments in regard to right and wrong: offers a way of examining moral life. Professional ethics are applied ethics designed to bring about the ethical conduct of the profession. Major purpose might be the pursuit of health, with the prevention of death and alleviation of suffering as secondary goals. Basic ethical principles to allow hcp to determine right and wrong in regard to value issues involving these goals are autonomy, veracity, confidentiality, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, and role fidelity. In healthcare, it means personal liberty free to choose and implement own decisions, free from deceit, duress, constraint, or coercion. Three basic elements involved in the process: the ability to decide without adequate information, and intellectual competence, autonomy seems hollow, the power to act on your decisions, respect for the individual autonomy of others.
