Professional Ethics

Professional Ethics

1. Beneficent

   • Promoting good
   • Doing good to others
   • Help guides difficult decisions

2. Fidelity

   • Truthfully
   • keeping a commitment

3. Autonomy

   • Respect patients wishes
   • Varcity
     • honesty
   • promoting independence
   • Example: A patient signing a consent form before surgery

4. Confidentiality

   • Protects personal and health information

5. Justice

   • Fairly and Equally
   • Patients being treated with the manner they deserve

6. Non- maleficence

   • Avoid causing harm
   • Balancing the risks and benefits

7. Integrity