ethics corlia van vuuren january 2011. background two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health...
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Ethics
Corlia van VuurenJanuary 2011
![Page 2: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Background
Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals:
• Professional behaviour/professional conduct
• Research
![Page 3: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Background (cont’d)
Reasons for the development of ethical rules/principles
• Inhumane research conducted, e.g.:
• World War II (Nuremberg code)
• Tuskegee study in syphilis
• Medical advancement
![Page 4: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Ethical cornerstones
Ethical principles
Human rights
Medical
law
![Page 5: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Ethical principles
• The right of patients to self-determination or to make their own informed choices, and to live their lives by their own beliefs, values and preferences.
Autonomy/ Respect others
![Page 6: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Ethical principles(cont’d)
• Deals with actions that are in the best interest of the patients even when the interests of the patient conflict with the health care professionals’ own personal self-interest.
Beneficence/ Do good
![Page 7: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Ethical principles(cont’d)
• Implies that health care professionals should not harm or act against the best interests of patients, even when the interests of the patients conflict with their own self-interest.
Non-maleficence/
Avoid harm to others
![Page 8: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Ethical principles(cont’d)
• Health care professionals should treat all individuals and groups in an impartial, fair and just manner.Justice/ Be
fair
![Page 9: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Ethical principles(cont’d)
• The quality or state of being of sound moral principle; uprightness, honesty, and sincerity.
Integrity
![Page 10: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Ethical principles(cont’d)
• Freedom from deceit or falseness
• The quality of being authentic (genuine, real)Truthfulness
![Page 11: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Ethical principles(cont’d)
• Sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help.
Compassion
![Page 12: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Ethical principles(cont’d)
• Being tolerant, especially of views, beliefs, practices of others that differ from one's own
• Freedom from prejudice• The ability to endureTolerance
![Page 13: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Ethical principles(cont’d)
• ?Philosophy vs Religion
![Page 14: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Ethical cornerstones
Ethical principles
Human rights
Medical
law
![Page 15: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Human rights
Human dignity
Patients’ rights charter
Patients’ responsibilities
![Page 16: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Human rights (cont’d)
• What is human dignity?
• Useful or useless?Human dignity
![Page 17: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Human rights (cont’d)
• Healthy and safe environment• Participation in decision-making• Access to health care• Knowledge of health
insurance/medical aid • Choice of health services• Treated by a named health care
professional
Patients’ rights charter
![Page 18: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Human rights (cont’d)
• Informed consent• Refusal of treatment• A second opinion• Continuity of care• Complaints about health services• Confidentiality and privacy
Patients’ rights charter
(cont’d)
![Page 19: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Human rights (cont’d)
• To take care of his or her own health
• To care for and protect the environment
• To respect the rights of other patients and health care providers
• To utilise the health care system properly and not to abuse it
Patients’ responsibilities
![Page 20: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Human rights (cont’d)
• To know his or her local health services and what they offer
• To provide health care providers with relevant and accurate information for diagnostic, treatment, rehabilitation or counseling purposes.
Patients’ responsibilities
(cont’d)
![Page 21: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Human rights (cont’d)
• To advise health care providers of his or her wishes with regard to his or her death.
• To comply with the prescribed treatment or rehabilitation procedures.
• To enquire about the related costs of treatment and/or rehabilitation and to arrange for payment.
Patients’ responsibilities
(cont’d)
![Page 22: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Human rights (cont’d)
• To take care of the health records in his or her possession.
Patients’ responsibilities
(cont’d)
![Page 23: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Ethical cornerstones
Ethical principles
Human rights
Medical
law
![Page 24: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Medical law
Responsibilities of health care professionals
To patients
To other health care professionals
To themselves
To society
To the profession
To the environment
![Page 25: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Human rights (cont’d)
• Act in the patients’ best interests when making referrals and providing/ arranging treatment.
• Treat patients referred to them in the same manner in which they would treat their own patients.
Health care professionals’
responsibilities to other health care
professionals
![Page 26: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Human rights (cont’d)
• Maintain and improve the standard of their performance by keeping their professional knowledge and skills up to date throughout their working life.
• Acknowledge the limits of their professional knowledge and competence.
Health care professionals’
responsibilities to themselves
![Page 27: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Human rights (cont’d)
• Keep accurate and up-to-date patient records.
• Refrain from engaging in activities that may affect their health and lead to impairment.
Health care professionals’
responsibilities to themselves
(cont’d)
![Page 28: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
Human rights (cont’d)
• Ensure that staff members employed by them are trained to respect patients’ rights; in particular the right to confidentiality.
Health care professionals’
responsibilities to themselves
(cont’d)
![Page 29: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
Conclusion
Did we act ethically??
![Page 30: Ethics Corlia van Vuuren January 2011. Background Two distinct areas of ethical conduct for health care professionals: Professional behaviour/professional](https://reader034.vdocuments.net/reader034/viewer/2022042822/56649ead5503460f94bb395c/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
Thank you
Questions