unit 13: professional ethics & code of conduct

Professional Ethics

Professional Ethics

• standards of behavior in one’s personal life, occupation, and workplace

• principles that govern a person’s behavior in the workplace or work environment

• set of rules by which professionals should act toward other people in the place of work

• sound moral and ethical principles

Professional Conduct

• application of ethics, morals, standards of behavior

• specific examples, cases, and situations on how to use ethics in the workplace

• maintain his/her ethical behavior and to show good professional conduct

To profess

to make a public declaration, or commitment to serve for a good end

Professional Code of Ethics

• personal and corporate standards of behavior expected from and by a professional

• how professionals are to pursue their common ideals and to protect each professional from certain pressures

• clear set of obligations based on tradition, society’s expectations, contracts, laws, and rules of ordinary morality

• obligations to their employers, clients, customers, other professionals, the profession itself, and the society in general

• Value statements and serve like the Constitution

• guide behavior and outline set of principles for decision making

“treating others the way we would like to be treated”

Professional Code of Conduct

• Provide the action → code of ethics

• apply the codes of ethics to particular and relevant situations

• List of guidelines or conditions

• Official documents that clearly define how a professional or a company employee should behave in the workplace on a daily basis

• Honesty

• Trustworthiness

• Loyalty

• Respect for others

• Adherence to the law

• Doing good

• Avoiding harm to others

• Accountability

Professional Code of Conduct

Ethical Principles

Build confidence in profession’s trustworthiness

Professional Code of Conduct: Benefits

• Wholeheartedly knowing the professional ethics & conduct

Greater transparency and certainty

Professional Code of Conduct: Benefits

• how clients’ affairs are handled

Supporting framework

Professional Code of Conduct: Benefits

• resisting pressure to act inappropriately, making acceptable decision in what may be “gray areas”

collegiality

Professional Code of Conduct: Benefits

• Provide common understanding of acceptable practice which builds ___, allows for fairer disciplinary procedures

Code of Ethics

may state that all professionals shall “observe confidentiality”

Code of Conduct

may provide a list of guidelines or conditions in implementing confidentiality

• An ethical commitment

• A personal resolve to act ethically

• knowing what is right or wrong

• ability to engage in sound moral reasoning and consider carefully the implications of alternative actions

General Principle of Professional Conduct

Ethical awareness

knowing what is right or wrong

Ethical competency

ability to engage in sound moral reasoning and consider carefully the implications of alternative actions

Service to Others

Specific Principles of Professional Conduct

• Professionals are committed to a life of service to others

• Prepared for heroic sacrifice and genuine selflessness, even at the expense of personal gain

Integrity and Objectivity

Specific Principles of Professional Conduct

• Professionals shall perform their responsibilities with the highest sense of integrity and imbued with nationalism and spiritual values

• Maintain objectivity, be free of conflicts of interest, refrain from engaging in activity that would prejudice their abilities to carry out their duties ethically

Professional Competence

Specific Principles of Professional Conduct

• Professionals shall, therefore, undertake only those professional services that they can reasonably deliver with professional competence

• Obligation to keep up with new knowledge and techniques, continually improve their skills, upgrade their level of competence, take part in lifelong continuing education program

Solidarity and Teamwork

Specific Principles of Professional Conduct

• Professionals should put the broader interest of the profession above one’s personal ambition and preference

• Nurture and support one organization for all its members

• Teamwork within a cohesive professional organization in effectively observing ethical practices, pursuing continuing professional development , deepening one’s social and civic responsibility

Social and Civic Responsibility

Specific Principles of Professional Conduct

• Professionals shall always carry out their professional duties with due consideration of the broader interest of the public

• Serve the public with professional concern and in a manner consistent with their responsibilities to society

• Actively contribute to the country’s national objectives

Global Competitiveness

Specific Principles of Professional Conduct

• Professionals shall remain open to challenges of a more dynamic interconnected world

• Rise up to global standards

• Maintain levels of professional practices fully aligned with global best practices

Equality of All Professions

Specific Principles of Professional Conduct

• Professionals shall treat their colleagues with respect and shall strive to be fair in their dealings with one another

Executive Order 220

DIRECTING THE ADOPTION OF THE CODE OF GOOD GOVERNANCE FOR THE PROFESSIONS IN THE PHILIPPINES

“the sustained development of a reservoir of national talents consisting of Filipino scientist xxx professionals xxx high-level technical manpower xxx shall be promoted by the State.”

Executive Order 220

Section 14, Article XII

good governance

Executive Order 220

one pillar of a strong republic

PRC Modernization Act of 2000

Executive Order 220

Republic Act No. 8981

Adoption of the Code of Good Governance

Executive Order 220

• promote and establish ethical awareness and competency

• to make them accountable to their public liability and fully fulfill their professional obligation

keep them abreast with modern trends and technology

Executive Order 220

the Code will empower professionals not only to upgrade or improve their technical and ethical proficiency but also to ___

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Executive Order 220

President

The Code of Good Governance for the Professions in the Philippines shall be adopted by all registered professionals

Executive Order 220

Section 1

Governance Advisory Council and the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC)

Executive Order 220

Section 2: ___ directed to undertake measures, including networking with government agencies and civil society, to effectively implement and enforce the Code through the Professional Regulatory Boards (PRBs)

Professional Regulation Commission (PRC)

Executive Order 220

Section 3: The ___ issue the necessary guidelines and procedures for the enforcement of the Code.

June 23, 2003

Executive Order 220

Approval Date

professional privileges, behaviors, and responsibilities

Main Objective of Professional Code of Ethics

1. To define ___ towards the members of the community in general

professional quality, professional conduct, and a moral method of procedures

Main Objective of Professional Code of Ethics

2. To promote ___

undue interference by the government or by other agencies

Main Objective of Professional Code of Ethics

3. To defend private professions from ___

dignity

Main Objective of Professional Code of Ethics

4. To preserve the ___ of the profession and the confidence of the public

unscrupulous individuals

Main Objective of Professional Code of Ethics

5. To defend clients from ___

compensations

Main Objective of Professional Code of Ethics

6. To fix certain standards of the ___ for services or work

fairness and brotherhood

Code of Ethics of MTs

Act in a spirit of ___ toward other members of the profession

there is no conflict of interest

Code of Ethics of MTs

Accept employment from more than one employer only when ___

constructive limits

Code of Ethics of MTs

Restrict my praises, criticisms, views, and opinions within ___

strictly confidential

Code of Ethics of MTs

Treat any information I acquired in the course of my work as ___

promote life and benefit mankind

Code of Ethics of MTs

Be dedicated to the use of clinical laboratory science to ___

authorized agency and to the ethics committee of the organization

Code of Ethics of MTs

Report any violations of the above principles of the professional conduct to ___

professional

Code of Ethics of MTs

Accept the responsibilities inherent to being a ___

Pre-Analytical Phase

Ethics in the Laboratory

• Informed consent

• All tests benefit to the patient

• Access to all tests at reasonable cost

Analytical Phase

Ethics in the Laboratory

• Right to decline specimen examined

• Best possible analytical result to patient

• No discrimination in examination of patients’ sample on the basis of gender, age, or race

Post-Analytical Phase

Ethics in the Laboratory

• Reporting

• Interpretation of results

• Residual specimen

• Data access

• Respect for Persons

• Beneficence

• Justice

Ethics in the Laboratory

3 Basic Principles