liability and ethics
Fidelity
Health care workers care for patients according to their profession's scope of practice.
Veracity
Health care workers communicate with patients truthfully.
Confidentiality
Health care workers maintain confidentiality of patients' health information.
Beneficence
Health care workers promote patients' health and well being.
Nonmaleficence
Health care workers refrain from harming patients.
Autonomy
Health care workers respect patients' dignity and rights, including their right to make decisions regarding their health care.
Justice
Health care workers treat patients equally and without discrimination.
Morals
also known as personal ethics, are an individual's personal values.
Laws
are rules of conduct enacted and enforced by governments.
Ethics
re rules of proper conduct among a group of people, such as a religion or profession