Chapter 24 Key Terms: Professional Ethics for Medical Imaging Personnel Flashcards
Caring
an emotional commitment to and a willingness to act on behalf of a person with whom a caring relationship exists.
Codes of ethics
Articulated statements of role morality as seen by the members of a profession.
Ethics
Systematic study of rightness and wrongness of human conduct and character as known by natural reason.
Laws
Regulations established by government and applicable to people with a certain political subdivision.
Morals
Generally excepted customs, principles, or habits of right living and conduct in a society and the individual’s practice in relation to these.
Norms
Standards set by individuals or groups of individuals.
Professional ethic
Publicly displayed ethical conduct of a profession, usually embedded in a code of ethics; affirms the professional as an independent, autonomous, responsible decision maker.
Professional ethics
Internal controls of a profession based on human values or moral principles.
Rules of ethics
ARRT’s mandatory standards of minimally acceptable professional conduct. These are enforceable and can result in sanctions should the ARRT determine the certificate holder has violated any of the rules.
Standards of professional conduct
Practice behaviors that are defined by members of a profession.
Values
Ideals and customs of a society toward which the members of a group have an affective regard; a value may be a quality desirable as an end in itself.
Anatomy
Person’s self reliance, independence, liberty, rights, privacy, individual choice, freedom of the will, and self contained ability to decide.
Beneficence
Doing of good, active promotion of goodness, kindness, and charity.
Confidentiality
Belief that health related information about individual patients should not be revealed to others, maintenance of privacy.
Consequentialism
Belief that the worth of actions is determined by their ends or consequences, actions are right or wrong according to the balance of their good and bad consequences.
Duties
Obligations placed on individuals, groups, and institutions by reason of the so-called moral bond of our interdependence with others.
Ethical Dilemmas
Situations requiring moral judgment between two or more equally problem-fraught alternatives, two or more competing moral norms are present, creating a challenge about what to do.
Ethical Outrage
Gross violation of commonly held standards of decency or human rights.
Ethical Theories
Bodies of systematically related moral principles used to resolve ethical dilemmas.
Ethics of care
Ethical reflections that emphasize an intimate personal relationship value system that includes such virtues as sympathy, compassion, fidelity, discernment, and love.
Fidelity
Strict observance of promises or duties; loyalty and faithfulness to others.
Justice
Equitable, fair, or just conduct in dealing with others.
Legal Rights
Rights of individuals or groups that are established and guaranteed by law.
