NCM 108: BIOETHICS → Healthcare provider-client relationship is regulated by

established rules of professional ethics.

CHAPTER 4:CALLING OF A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER
○ Nursing ethics
CALLING OF A HEALTHCARE PROVIDER → Paramount concern and responsibility of the healthcare
provider
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS → The relationship established between patients and health
→ What is right or wrong for a person as a member of a care providers is fiduciary in nature, which means that it
certain professional or social group is based on trust
HEALTH CARE PROFESSIOv → The professional trusts the patient or client to disclose all
→ Belongs to the ambience of professional ethics. the information that may be relevant to his or her
→ Loaded with a lot of sensitivities and vulnerabilities since condition or illness, and to be truthful while disclosing it.
it deals with life In return:
→ Respects both the issues of life and death → The patient or client trusts the healthcare professional to
→ Concerned with living human person in the context of maintain high standards of competence
Health Maintenance → To protect the confidentiality of private information;
→ Abide to a lot of norms, principles, theories and values as → To carry out his or her work in the best interests of the
a person becomes ill patient rather than taking advantage of the patient’s
→ Aided pf certain acceptable guides in decision relative to vulnerability.
healthcare giving. QUALITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF GOOD HEALTH CARE
THE CLIENT PROVIDER
→ The summit of the meaning of the healthcare profession
→ Justifies the essence of the healthcare provider’s TO CLIENT
profession The healthcare provider must show:
→ Presumed to be vulnerable → Professionalism
→ Someone the healthcare provides has to address all → Empathy and compassion
his/her capabilities, skills and professionalism → Communication
HEALTH CARE PROVIDER → Emotional stability
→ No ordinary professional → Passion for helping others
→ Duties and responsibilities can’t just be accomplished by → Respect the patient’s rights
mere compliance of those he/she is expected to do. → Secure confidentiality
→ 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 To society:
HEALTHCARE PROVIDER - CLIENT RELATIONSHIP
 → Health professionals play a central and critical role in
improving access and quality health care for the
populatioon
→ Healthcare providers create am emvironment that
responds to the healthcare needs of the community
→ They provide essential services that promote health,
prevent diseases and deliver healthcare services to
individual, families and communities based on the primary
health care appraoch.
To its profession:
→ Abide to professional ethics
→ Must always show professionalism at all times
Professional ethics that professional services will be rendered in
accordance with reasonably high standards and acceptable moral
conduct. This confidence enables professionals to exercise relatively
independent judgements in decisions affeting clients.