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Professional Ethics - Coggle Diagram
Professional Ethics
The concept of a profession
Ethics of the professionals who are members of a given profession
Doctors
Lawyers
Teachers
Professions have thier typical service ideal and scientific training
Supposed to put into effect the values and decisions of some authority
The professional status is based on a science that has its own traditions, methods of work, research paradigms, scientific theories.
Professional Power and Internal Ethics
All professions wield social power simply because of their
expertise and rare ability to serve
Any profession has its internal ethics.
Cooperate and share information
Internal ethics and collegial loyalty are especially relevant in crisis situations, such as in malpractice cases
The Requirement of Good Professional Practice
Professional always serves the clients and promotes some goals that are important
Crucial relationship: relation of trust between the professional and the client.
The professional promises to take care of it
Ethical Codes of Conduct
The proffesion publishes its own code of conduct
The code does not limit the freedom of professionals
The code defines the limits of professional expertise
goodwill and intentions
Autonomy
is the result of their special expertise and the importance of their service ideal
Monopoly on the kind of services they provide
Authority
professional person is an authority to the client.
epistemic authorities to their clients
The professional should explain and justify the case first
Personal Integrity
Professionals are immune to the external distracting factors
Ethical guidelines: professionalism and personal integrity protect the professional from possible aberrations.
Professions, the Law, and Business
The professionals work in a free market environment whose enterprises are characterized by business logic and regulated ultimately by business ethics
Loyalty
Professionals were supposed to be totally unselfish, benevolent persons who sacrificed their own best interests
key concepts of professional ethics.
Professionals are also loyal to their colleagues and their profession in general.
High Standards of Work
A professional must also be willing and highly motivated to work
Continuous training to keep one’s knowledge and skills up to date.
Responsibility and Duty
It is the professional’s first duty to obey the law.
Responsibility can be based on competence
Care logically entails personal responsibility
Anti-Paternalism
designed to help and be a service to the client
A paternalistic measure is one that aims at the client’s best interests even when the client does not agree.
FUTURE
The public is increasingly more knowledgeable, which means that relevant knowledge is no longer the professional monopoly
Authority is in danger because of the clients’ independent access to all the relevant knowledge
. This means that
their ethics of conduct will also be in the limelight.
Trustworthiness and Virtue
Admirable character trait, such as wisdom, courage, justice, benevolence, and modesty.
Love
Demanding nature
Professional ethics demands that all professionals are clear about the ethical requirements of their position
Confidentiality
Lack of trust makes it difficult for the patient to reveal personal information
Informed Consent
The idea that nothing can be done to the patient without personal agreement on the basis of full information and knowledge of the case
Multiprofessional Networks
The modern professional works as a member of a
team that consists of many professional but also nonprofessional members.
The professions have their own core ethics, but they share a
common, appropriately constructed fringe.
Succes consists on all the agents are able to cooperate seamlessly and avoid conflicts of interest at all levels