Bioethics

Chapter 6: Calling of a Health Care Provider

HEALTH CARE PROFESSION PROFESSIONAL ETHICS - Attends trainings and seminars for self
Belongs to the ambience of What is right or wrong for a improvement
professional ethics person as a member of a professional ethics is to assure clients that
certain professional or social professional services will be rendered in
group accordance with reasonably high standards and
acceptable moral conduct. This confidence
HEALTH CARE PROFESSION enables professionals to exercise relatively
• Loaded with a lot of sensitivities and vulnerabilities since it independent judgments in decisions affecting
deals with LIFE clients
• Respects both the issues of life and death
• Concerned with the living human person in the context of
HEALTH MAINTENANCE
• Abide to a lot of norms, principles, theories and values as a
person becomes ill
• Aided of certain acceptable guides in decision relative to
healthcare giving
CLIENT
• The summit of the meaning of the healthcare profession
• Justifies the essence of the healthcare provider’s profession
• Presumed to be vulnerable
• Someone the healthcare provider has to address all his/her
capabilities, skills and professionalism
HEALTH CARE PROVIDER
• No ordinary professional
• Duties and responsibilities can’t just be accomplished by
mere compliance of those he/she is expected to do
• Delicately undertakes to deal with human life
• Cuts across race, religion, affiliations, culture, beliefs
• Does not have the legal or moral right to choose the kind of
client he/she will take care of
HEALTH CARE PROVIDER-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP
• regulated by established rules of professional ethics
o e.g. Nursing Ethics
• Paramount concern and responsibility of the healthcare
provider
• The relationship established between patients and health
care providers is fiduciary in nature, which means that it is
based on trust.
• The professional trusts the patient or client to disclose all the
information that may be relevant to his or her condition or
illness, and to be truthful while disclosing it.
In return:
• the patient or client trusts the health care professional to
maintain high standards of competence;
• to protect the confidentiality of private information;
• to carry out his or her work in the best interests of the
patient rather than taking advantage of the patient's
vulnerability
QUALITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF GOOD HEALTH CARE
PROVIDER
To client • Professionalism
• Empathy and Compassion
• Communication
• Emotional Stability
• Passion for Helping Others
• Respect the patient’s rights
• Secure confidentiality
To society - Health professionals play a central and
critical role in improving access and quality
health care for the population.
- health care providers create an
environment that responds to the health
care needs of the community
- They provide essential services that promote
health, prevent diseases and deliver health
care services to individuals, families and
communities based on the primary health
care approach
To profession - Abide to PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
- Must always shows professionalism at all
times

SAMANTHA NICHOLLE T. INSONG 1