Principles Of Practice Flashcards
What are the 5 principles of practice?
- Professional competence
- Honestly and integrity
- Independence and impartiality
- Client confidentiality and trust
- Professional accountability
What is professional competence?
The capability to perform the duties of one’s profession generally, or to perform a particular professional talk, with skill of an acceptable quality
What is integrity?
- Upstanding character traits
- High standard of work ethics
- Sound judgement
- Dependability
- Loyalty
What characteristics does a person with integrity demonstrate?
- Sound moral and ethical principles
- Does the right thing, no matter who’s watching
What is data protection?
Ensuring people can trust you to use their data fairly and responsibly
What laws relate to data protection?
- The Data Protection Act 2018
- GDPR
What is professional accountability?
Being accountable for our practice, work environment, and patient safety
What are the 10 Principles of Certification?
- VS must have personal knowledge/supporting evidence of what they are signing
- No conflict of interest
- In their own or understood language
- Compliance with the law clearly stated if necessary
- Only original documents
- No alternations or incomplete areas
- Simple, easy language
- Whole documents with unique identifier and copies made
- Wording should not be capable of more than one interpretation
- Clearly identify subject being certified
What responsibilities does a veterinary surgeon have?
- 24 hour pain relief
- Medical and surgical procedures
- 24 hour emergency first aid
- Assessment and diagnosis
- Appropriate delegation
- Research
- Advice
What does it mean to be ‘in practice’?
- Clinical services
- First-opinion
- Routine services
- Referral
- 24 hour service
Can a veterinary surgeon refuse to provide first aid and pain relief?
No
AWA 2006; To protect from pain suffering and injury
