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