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Professional ethics professional ethics for technology
TechTrends, 2004Professional ethics express what a professional society is about. They are an emblem to focus on, to support, to identify with and to advocate for. Our Code expresses who we are, what we do, and shows how our profession functions for the good of all. Our areas of work are related specialties. Those who are unqualified have the potential to do harm.
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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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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, 2010AbstractIn 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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The Ethics of Professional Regulation
New England Journal of Medicine, 1985Chapter 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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Trustworthiness and Professional Ethics
Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association (1996), 2002Earlier 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 Ethical OR/MS Professional
Interfaces, 2001A profession, since it affects the lives of others, must have ethics. Actions can be classified as prudential, legal, and ethical. Ethical theories are action based or consequence based; ethics can be positive, requiring action, or negative, proscribing action. Some people may have hierarchies establishing precedence among ethical rules. While harming
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Professional Misconduct and Ethics
Clinics in Perinatology, 2007Quality 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
2016This 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, 1978The 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, 1996Training 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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