To gain additional practice regarding assessing the role of professional and medical codes of conduct, conduct a search on the internet to find a professional code of conduct that relates to your specialty and discuss with your classmates what you feel the most important element is in the code of conduct and why.
Ethics is a system of principles or fundamental truths, a society develops to guide decision making about what is right and wrong. Ethical principles help people deal with complex problems that do not have easy answers. Ethical principles adopted by a society reflect that society's common, understood, and accepted principles for guiding behaviourEthics reflect the religious, historical and collective experiences of a group of people.
The professional code of ethics for different health care occupations outline principles to deal properly with ethically challenging questions and situations. The codes set standards of professional conduct that both promote the welfare of patients and ensure a high quality of care. The practice of health care involves life and death issues that often are at the heart of ethical questions and considerations.
The code of professional conduct for nurses are the sets of some minimum standards for practice a professional person is expected to uphold both within and outside of professional domains in order to ensure the good standing of the nursing profession.
Professional conduct refers to the manner in which a person behaves while acting in a professional capacity. A breach of the Code may constitute either professional misconduct or unprofessional conduct.
Professional code of conduct that relates to the obstetrical and gynaecological nursing:
*As a nurse-midwife, he has to do good for women and families
*As a nurse-midwife, she has to hold the belief that childbearing and parturition are normal life-processes
*As a nurse-midwife, she has to uphold the values of patient values, culture, tradition etc
*As nurse-midwife decisions regarding nurse-midwifery care require client participation
*Nurse-midwives share professional information with their client that leads to informed consent participation.
*Nurse-midwives practice competently
*Nurse-midwives provide care without discrimination based on race, religion, lifestyle, sexual orientation, socio-economic status or nature of the health problem.
*Nurse-midwives maintain confidentiality
*Nurse-midwives take appropriate action to protect clients from harm when endangered by incompetent and unethical practices.
*Nurse-midwives interact respectfully with people with whom they work and practice
*Nurse midwives participate in developing and improving the care of women and families through supporting the profession, research, and education of nurse-midwifery students and nurse-midwives.
*Nurse-midwives promote community, state and national efforts to ensure access to quality care and to meet the health needs of women and their families.
*Nurse-midwives should not participate in illegal abortion.
The Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses sets the minimum standards for practice a professional person is expected to uphold both within and outside of professional domains in order to ensure the ‘good standing’ of the nursing profession. These two companion Codes, together with other published practice standards (e.g. competency standards, decision-making frameworks, guidelines, and position statements), provide a framework for legally and professionally accountable and responsible nursing practice in all.
To gain additional practice regarding assessing the role of professional and medical codes of conduct, conduct...
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