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framework to help them ensure the safety of patients and
their fellow healthcare providers.
Ethics
Importance of Bioethics
a. Regulates human conduct in the practice of health care so that good may
be done and evil may be avoided.
b. Ensures that the purpose of health is being met.
c. Serves as guiding principle for healthcare professionals to observe in
addressing health care issues.
refers method of inquiry that helps people to understand the morality
of human behavior.
Ethics
expected standards of moral behavior of a
particular group as described in the group’s formal code of professional
ethics.
ethics
ethics applied to life; relates to human life or ethics of the life sciences-health care
bioethics
science that guides health care provider toward moral ethical behavior in
delivery of excellent health practices, services to patient, client, family,
colleagues and community
health ethics
relates to human life; focused on moral issues in health care field
bioethics
relates to human health and it is considered ethics for health profession
health ethics
refers to ethical issues that occur in nursing practice
nursing ethics
division of ethics that relates to professional behavior. It is guided
by a set of norms for behavior that suit the profession’s particular aims and
goals, and which reflect the profession’s values.
professional ethics
principles of right and wrong behavior and the
goodness or badness of human character.
moral
quality of act itself; the quality of human act
morality
employs the power of human
reasoning which is a natural process
natural science
Ethics presents truths that are to be acted upon. It presents data which directly imply and indicate direction for human conduct. Ethics is
not studied for the love of learning. All are bound in conscience to apply its principles to their conduct
practical science
Ethics treats human acts- it was performed, it was chosen and
given existence, it was determined- it does not deal with acts of man (acted
upon without thinking).
moral science