Week 11 PP Flashcards
What is Adaptability?
Being flexible and open to change, able to adjust new situations, and willing to learn new skills.
What is Service?
Putting the needs of clients or customers first, being attentive to their needs, and providing excellent service.
What is Trust?
Building trust with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders by demonstrating reliability, competence, and integrity.
What is Diversity & Inclusion?
Valuing diversity and promoting inclusivity, treating everyone with respect, and avoiding discrimination based on race, gender, age or other factors.
What is Integrity?
This involves honesty, trustworthiness, and adherence to ethical standards.
What is Responsiblity?
Being accountable for your actions, taking ownership of your work, and fulfilling your obligations.
What is Respect?
Showing consideration for others, their beliefs, opinions, and feelings.
What is Professionalism?
Conducing onself in a manner that reflects competence, expertise, and dedication to one’s profession.
What is Teamwork?
Collaborating with collegues, sharing knowledge, and working towards common goals.
What is Excellence?
Striving for high standards of performance and quality, seeking continuous improvement, and being committed to excellence.
Common Health Care Values
-Respect for the patient and their privacy
-Respect for the work environment
-Respect for the profession
-Respect for the laws, regulations, and policies that govern us as healthcare professionals
What is Ethics?
Ethics examines the rational justification for our moral judgements; it studies what is morally right or wrong, just or unjust. In a broader sense, ethics reflects on human beings and their interaction with other human beings.
- interactions can include, with nature, on freedom, on responsiblities, and on justice
Ethics is…
Seeks to determine whether the actions of humans are right or wrong
DOES NOT - provide a process with a straight forward decision making process
Our personal ethics are often based on:
-Life experiences
-Personal values
-Training
-Philosophy
What are Professional Ethics?
Are the principles of conduct for members of a profession
What is a Code of Ethics?
A code of ethics or similar guidlines are the trademakr of a profession
- it should outline the responsiblity of a member of that profession
What are 7 Principles of Healthcare Ethics?
- Autonomy
- Veracity
- Beneficence
- Nonmaleficence
- Privacy & Confidentiality
- Justice
- Competence (role fidelity)
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What is Autonomy?
-the right of an individual to make independent decisions
- relates to informed consent
-people can make their own healthcare decisions provided they have been given all the correct information and have the capacity to do so
What is Veracity?
-Telling the Truth
-This goes both ways - the provider and patient need to be honest
What it Beneficence?
-to provide a benefit to do good for others
-promoting the best interest of your client/patient
What is Nonmaleficence?
-to “do no harm”
-essentially the reverse of beneficence in pledging to refrain from causing harm
-pledging to do no harm to your client/patient
What is Prviacy & Confidentiality?
-the patients right to privacy and to keep information confidential
-relating to the patient’s right to privacy
What is Justice?
-relates to the concepts of fairness and entitlements
-in healthcare we focus on distributive justice, which is fairness in allocating health care services
-procedural justice is the fair ordering of things, such as waiting lists
-compensatory justice is fair provision of resources to a wronged or injured individual
-providing services to all persons equally
What is Competence?
Role fidelity
-a professional should act within the contraints of their role
-refers to the profession’s scope of practice
-staying within the contraints of your job
-delivery of quality care