Professional ethics

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Professional ethics includes the standards of personal and corporate behavior that professionals expect.

The word professionalism was originally applied to the religious order oath. At least in 1675, the term has seen a secular application and is applied to three professions studied: Divinity, Law, and Medicine. The term professionalism is also used for the military profession at the same time.

Professionals and those working in a recognized profession train specialist knowledge and skills. How the use of this knowledge should be regulated when providing services to the public can be considered a moral issue and is called professional ethics.

It is able to make judgments, apply their skills, and reach informed decisions in situations that the general public can not because they have not yet reached the necessary knowledge and skills. One of the earliest examples of professional ethics is the Hippocratic oath that doctors still adhere to today.

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Components

Some professional organizations can define their ethical approach in terms of a number of discrete components. Usually this includes:

• Honesty
• Integrity
• Transparency
• Accountability
• Confidentiality
• Objectivity
• Respect
• Obedience to the law
• Loyalty

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Implementation

Most professionals apply internal code of practice to be followed by members of the profession to prevent client exploitation and maintain professional integrity. This is not only for the benefit of the client but also for the benefit of those who have the profession. The discipline code allows the profession to set standards of conduct and ensure that individual practitioners meet these standards, disciplining them from professional bodies if they do not practice accordingly. This allows professionals who act with a conscience to practice in the knowledge that they will not be underestimated commercially by those who have fewer ethical doubts. It also maintains public confidence in the profession, encouraging people to continue searching for their services.

Internal settings

In cases where professional bodies organize their own ethics, it is possible for these agencies to become self-serving and fail to follow their own codes of conduct when dealing with rebel members. This is especially true for professions where they almost have a full monopoly on a particular field of knowledge. For example, to date, UK courts have suspended professional consensus on matters relating to their practice beyond the law and case law.

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Legislation

In many countries there are several legal rules of professional ethical standards such as legal entities governing nursing and midwifery in England and Wales. Failure to comply with these standards may be a problem for the courts.

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Example

For example, a public lay member should not be held responsible for failing to act to rescue victims of car accidents because they can not provide appropriate emergency care. In fact, they are responsible for trying to get help for victims. This is because they have no relevant knowledge and experience. Conversely, a fully trained doctor (with the right equipment) will be able to make the correct diagnosis and perform the proper procedure. The failure of a doctor to not help at all in such situations will generally be regarded as negligent and unethical. In fact, if a doctor helps and makes mistakes that are considered negligent and unethical, there may be a terrible reaction. An untrained person will only be deemed negligent for failing to act if they have done nothing to help and be protected by the law of the "Good Samaritan" if they inadvertently cause more damage and the possibility of loss of life.

A business can approach a professional engineer to ensure the safety of an unsafe project. While an engineer may refuse to certify the project on a moral basis, a business may find a less thorough engineer who will be prepared to certify the project for a bribe, thus saving the cost of redesigning the business.

Separatism

At a theoretical level, there is debate as to whether the code of ethics for the profession should be consistent with the morality requirements that govern the public. Separatists argue that the profession should be allowed to go beyond such limits when they judge it as necessary. This is because they are trained to produce certain outcomes that may take precedence over other community functions. For example, it can be said that a doctor may lie to the patient about the severity of his condition if there is reason to believe that telling the patient will cause so much trouble that it will harm his health. It will be disrespectful to patient autonomy, as it denies the patient's information that can have a major impact on his life. This is generally viewed as morally wrong. However, if the end of improvement and health care is given a moral priority in society, then it can be justified to violate other moral demands to achieve this goal. Separatism is based on a relativist conception of morality that can be a different, equally valid moral code that applies to different parts of society and differences in interpersonal code (see moral relativism). If moral universism is assumed to originate, then this will be inconsistent with the view that the profession can have different moral codes, since universalists argue that there is only one valid moral code for all..

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Student ethics

As attending college after high school graduation becomes the standard in the lives of young people, colleges and universities become more like business in their expectations than the students. Although people have different opinions about whether it is effective, the survey states that it is the overall goal of university administrators. Setting up a business atmosphere such as helping students get adjusted from a more relaxed nature, such as high school, to what would be expected of them in the business world after graduating from College.

Code of conduct

Code of conduct, such as the St Xavier Code of Ethics, becomes more important in the student's academic life. While some of these rules are based only on other academics more profound than in previous years. Like, detailing the expected level of respect for staff and gambling.

Not only is the code of ethics applicable while attending school at home, but also while studying abroad. The school also implements a code of conduct for international study programs that brings more than the same rules found in most student handbooks.

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See also

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References

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Further reading

• Values, morals, and ethics. Retrieved 16 August 2009,
• Joseph, J. (2007). Ethics in the Workplace. Retrieved 16 August 2009
• Walker, Evelyn, and Perry Deane Young (1986). Killer Drugs . New York: H. Holt and Co. xiv, 338 p. N.B : Title of explanation on the cover of the book: True Account of a Female from Sexual Harassment and Drugs and Near Death at the Hand of the Psychiatrist . No ISBN

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