Introduction
• Currently the government of Kenya has decided to introduce an
innovative Perioperative Theatre Technology training aimed at
equipping an individual with competencies required to provide
services in a perioperative theatre set-up in a hospital.
• The perioperative theatre services are being provided as a package
focusing on
A. preventing nosocomial infections,
B. providing technical services to theatre team,
C. ensuring safety of patients and theatre team,
D. participating in operation theatre services and
E. maintaining theatre instruments and apparatus
,• The delivery of a meaningful health service can only be successful when
accompanied by sound principle of Health Ethics and adequate knowledge of
health laws related to health service delivery system.
• Ethics is a system of moral principles, rules of conduct about a particular class of
human action or a particular group of people. It is also that branch of
philosophy dealing with value relating to human conduct in respect to whether
certain actions are right or wrong and whether the motives and ends of such
actions are good or bad.
• The issue of human rights-personal, civic and those that are international in
scope has been brought often to the public’s attention in the past several years.
Nowhere is this issue more important than in delivery of health care.
• As morals and ethics of society in general are changing, health care ethics
merely reflect and absorbs this change. It is obvious, therefore that this lecture
note of health Ethics and health laws for perioperative theatre Technicians will
require periodic review based on social, health and legal progress.
,Background
• Ethics is the philosophical study of the moral value of human conduct and the
rules that govern it. The practical manifestations of ethics relates to codes of
normative behaviour for society and an awareness of issues within society that
have moral importance.
• Ethics have been particularly associated with specific groups in society that are
deemed to have societal responsibility. Professions are among such groups.
• What is certain is that professions have a prestigious, powerful and trusted
place in society and both the public and the law expect high standards of
conduct, especially where society allows self-regulation.
• The purpose of this code of ethics is to serve as a guide to conduct
Perioperative Theatre Technical services. It contains standards of ethical
behaviour for Perioperative Theatre Technicians in fulfilling their duties and
responsibilities.
, PROFESSIONALISM
• You are being trained to become a Perioperative Theatre Technician.
• On completion of this programme, you will be expected to be
proficient in providing general perioperative care to clients/patients
requiring surgical interventions.
• This unit aims at moulding to become a professional Perioperative
theatre technician.
• You will at all times, whether on or off duty, be expected to display
certain professional characteristics.
• You will begin by defining a profession, a professional perioperative
theatre technician and theatre practice
• Currently the government of Kenya has decided to introduce an
innovative Perioperative Theatre Technology training aimed at
equipping an individual with competencies required to provide
services in a perioperative theatre set-up in a hospital.
• The perioperative theatre services are being provided as a package
focusing on
A. preventing nosocomial infections,
B. providing technical services to theatre team,
C. ensuring safety of patients and theatre team,
D. participating in operation theatre services and
E. maintaining theatre instruments and apparatus
,• The delivery of a meaningful health service can only be successful when
accompanied by sound principle of Health Ethics and adequate knowledge of
health laws related to health service delivery system.
• Ethics is a system of moral principles, rules of conduct about a particular class of
human action or a particular group of people. It is also that branch of
philosophy dealing with value relating to human conduct in respect to whether
certain actions are right or wrong and whether the motives and ends of such
actions are good or bad.
• The issue of human rights-personal, civic and those that are international in
scope has been brought often to the public’s attention in the past several years.
Nowhere is this issue more important than in delivery of health care.
• As morals and ethics of society in general are changing, health care ethics
merely reflect and absorbs this change. It is obvious, therefore that this lecture
note of health Ethics and health laws for perioperative theatre Technicians will
require periodic review based on social, health and legal progress.
,Background
• Ethics is the philosophical study of the moral value of human conduct and the
rules that govern it. The practical manifestations of ethics relates to codes of
normative behaviour for society and an awareness of issues within society that
have moral importance.
• Ethics have been particularly associated with specific groups in society that are
deemed to have societal responsibility. Professions are among such groups.
• What is certain is that professions have a prestigious, powerful and trusted
place in society and both the public and the law expect high standards of
conduct, especially where society allows self-regulation.
• The purpose of this code of ethics is to serve as a guide to conduct
Perioperative Theatre Technical services. It contains standards of ethical
behaviour for Perioperative Theatre Technicians in fulfilling their duties and
responsibilities.
, PROFESSIONALISM
• You are being trained to become a Perioperative Theatre Technician.
• On completion of this programme, you will be expected to be
proficient in providing general perioperative care to clients/patients
requiring surgical interventions.
• This unit aims at moulding to become a professional Perioperative
theatre technician.
• You will at all times, whether on or off duty, be expected to display
certain professional characteristics.
• You will begin by defining a profession, a professional perioperative
theatre technician and theatre practice
