Ethics, which is based on well-founded standards of right or wrong that prescribe what humans responsibilities to do, usually the terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues. Many people want to judge ethics by their feelings. But, ethics should not be a matter of following one’s feelings. If a person is following his/her feelings in case of ethnicity, may retreat from doing the right one.
Being ethical also not to follow the law always. Most of the time laws integrate standards of ethics of which most citizens subscribe. Laws also like feelings, can deviate from what is ethical. Again, being ethical is not, what society says and what they accept. Cause there are so many people with different point of view for ethics. Most of society accepts the standards. But this standard behavior can deviate from what is ethical.
Yes, ethics can be taught also can be learned. Ethics is simply defined as a set of knowledge in terms of moral principles. It is the moral values that guide an individual’s behavior or the conducting of a certain activity. People can learn ethics from the other people surrounded. by. People can follow normal ethical behavior and can adapt as they own.
According to the article, the ethics of justice and ethics of care are two types of style. Ethics of justice based on justice, fairness, equal authority. The advantages of this approach are, it judges fairly and treats impartially to the people, according to the legal rule, and standard. People try to be objective and fair.
Ethic of care is also called the ethics of responsibilities. It is a sense of responsibility in order to reduce harms and sufferings. The advantage of this application is, people can get an immediate response to their sufferings. Another advantage is, it doesn’t need to follow the religion.
So according to the ethical style, my ethical style is the ethics of justice. Which is based on, justice, morality, law, fairness, and equality. Yes, I agree with this result. These are the answer which I always try to follow in my life.
According to the article, “Origin of Ethical Behaviour” Ethical behavior is acting in a manner that is in tandem with what society considers to be good morals. Ethical behaviors are important because they guide people’s actions. Examples of ethical behavior include integrity, fairness, honesty, and dignity.
- Malfeasance: is a comprehensive term used in both civil and criminal law to describe any act that is wrongful. It is not a distinct crime or TORT but may be used generally to describe any act that is criminal or that is wrongful and gives rise to, or somehow contributes to, the injury of another person.
- Confidentiality: involves a set of rules or a promise that limits access or places restrictions in a certain type of information.
- Conflict of interest: is one’s obligations to a particular person or group conflict with oneself interest. For an example, a physician is ordinarily obligated to provide his/her patients with only the care that is reasonable and medically necessary, even if He/She could earn more money through unnecessary interventions.
- Full disclosure: this term in the legal sense often applies to laws that level the playing field between people who are entering into a contract. The leveling is necessary cause it gives people an opportunity to make a reasoned decision on whether to enter a contract based on full knowledge of the situation.
- HIPAA: The Health Insurance Accountability and Portability Act, helps to protect the privacy of patients by giving them certain rights over the use of their medical information and providing limitations on who may have access to this information.
- Responsibility: the state of fact of having a duty to deal with something, or having control of someone. Accountability is an assurance that an individual or an organization will be evaluated on their performance or behavior related to something for which they are responsible.
- Academic integrity: is essential to the foundation and ongoing viability of an academic community, including managers researchers, teachers and students
A purpose of the code of ethics to reflect the values and ethical principles guiding the nutrition and dietetics profession and to set forth commitments and obligations. The primary purpose is to protect individuals, group, organizations, communities, or populations, with whom the practitioner works and interacts. The code applies to nutrition and dietetics practitioners who act in a wide variety of capacities, provides general principles and ethical standards for situations frequently encountered in daily practice
Among the four standards, two of them are social responsibilities (justice) and professionalism. For professionalism, the nutritionist and dietetic practitioner contribute to making a decision for the well being of the client or patients. They respect the values, right, and knowledge to their profession also the other profession. They refrain them from any kind of harassment, like sexual harassment, emotional and physical harassment. Refrain themselves from providing false information, cheating, deceptive, misleading, and unfair statement. Another standard is social responsibility. Nutritionists and dietetic technicians help to reduce people’s health disparities and to protect their rights. They provide equity and fairness. Contribute to such kind of time and activity which promote the honor of the profession.
There is a relation or connection between Academic integrity in LaGuardia Community College and integrity in personal and professional behavior. From academic integrity, we learned that it is cheating, which means, unauthorized use of materials and information as won works. Which totally wrong to do. And students should not do so. On the other hand, integrity in personal and professional behavior, we also learned to provide, true and accurate information in all communications. Also to report inappropriate and behavior and treatments.
References
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