Professional Ethics Questions & Answers

Professional Ethics Questions & Answers 3 groups of values - ANSWER: •Personal •Cultural •Professional ARRT Rules of Ethics - ANSWER: Mandatory rules of acceptable conduct and enforced through ARRT-prescribed sanctions. ARRT Standard of Ethics - ANSWER: 10 aspirational principles Autonomy (acting with personal self-reliance) - ANSWER: Perform actions that respect the independence of other persons. The patient must decide what is done to his or her person. Beneficence (bringing about good) - ANSWER: Perform actions that benefit others. Decide and act always to benefit the patient. Code of ethics - ANSWER: •Principles which guide professional activities of its members. •Serves as a guide to evaluate professional conduct as it relates to patients, health care consumers, employers, colleagues and other members of the health care team. Consequentialism - ANSWER: Evaluates the rightness or wrongness of ethical decision making by assessing the consequences of these decisions on the patient. Producing a good effect for the patient or at least avoiding some potential harm. Example: would consider lying to a patient if they think they lie would ultimately benefit the patient. Ethical theories - ANSWER: Set of principles that tell us what actions are right or wrong. This second approach can be used to base ethical decision making on normative ethical systems. Ethics - ANSWER: Systematic study of rightness and wrongness of human conduct and character as known by natural reason. Ethics of care - ANSWER: Our actions should be based on an integral part of the context of specific situations rather than an isolated event. Focus on virtues such as sympathy, compassion, fidelity, discernment, and love...