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Nurses' professional values: Influences of experience and ethics education.

Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2019
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To measure the professional values of registered nurses and determine whether these values are significantly related to postlicensure ethics education and years of experience.
Heidi A Monroe
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Toward a professional ethic

Journal of Nurse-Midwifery, 1987
Statements of a profession's ethics are commonplace in the health care field. They usually take the form of a “code of ethical conduct” and provide a public statement of the ethical behaviors expected of professionals. This paper presents some of the historical background on the development of codes of ethics in health care, reasons for current use ...
H O, Thompson, J E, Thompson
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The politics of professional ethics

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2010
AbstractIn order to illustrate how terms of reference themselves, such as those announced by ‘professional ethics’, delimit and distort moral consideration I start with an extended discussion of how Just War Theory operates to do this; and go on to discuss ‘the power of naming’ with reference to the British attack on Iraq.
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Trustworthiness and Professional Ethics

Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association (1996), 2002
Earlier this year, Kansas City, Mo., pharmacist Robert Courtney admitted to charges that he had adulterated, tampered with, and mislabeled the chemotherapy drugs Taxol (paclitaxel—Bristol-Myers Squibb) and Gemzar (gemcitabine—Lilly) prescribed for 34 patients with cancer.
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The Ethics of Professional Regulation

New England Journal of Medicine, 1985
Chapter 458 of the Florida Statutes (The Medical Practice Act) begins: "The Legislature recognizes that the practice of medicine is potentially dangerous to the public if conducted by unsafe and in...
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‘What is professional ethics?’

Nursing Ethics, 2013
The very term ‘professional ethics’ is puzzling with respect to what both ‘professional’ and ‘ethics’ might mean. I argue (1) that professionalism is ambiguous as to whether or not it is implicitly committed to ethical practice; (2) that to be ‘professionally’ ethical is at best ambiguous, if not in fact bizarre; and (3) that, taken together, these ...
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Professional Misconduct and Ethics

Clinics in Perinatology, 2007
Quality medical care focuses on achieving the greatest benefit while minimizing the risk of patient harm. This standard can become clouded in the case of a parturient and her fetus. The maternal-fetal relationship is unlike any other faced by physicians due to the fetus' complete physiologic dependence on the mother and because both the fetus and ...
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Ethics, Professionalism and Regulation

2016
This chapter examines the main ethical doctrines utilitarianism, deontology and rights theories and how they relate to public relations. It explores how the industry is addressing the question of professionalism. In June 2000, the City of London Guild of Public Relations Practitioners was formed with the aims of promoting and maintaining excellence in ...
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The professional ethic in nursing*

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1978
The author distinguishes two significant characteristics of a profession, ‘professional service’ and ‘sense of responsibility’, and relates these to the obligations of the professional.Ethical concepts, and the professional code of conduct, are discussed in the context of recent events and publications in the United Kingdom.
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Professional code and ethics for training professionals

Journal of European Industrial Training, 1996
Training implies certain dealings in which one has to make a choice among various options. Choosing to solve a certain problem implies formulating a value judgement about the available alternatives. Such choices are generally based on ethical decisions.
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