Professional ethics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Chadwick
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Occupational Activity ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Client Relationship ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Ordinary Morality

Professional ethics is concerned with the values appropriate to certain kinds of occupational activity, such as medicine and law, which have been defined traditionally in terms of a body of knowledge and an ideal of service to the community; and in which individual professionals have a high degree of autonomy in their practice. The class of occupations aiming to achieve recognition as professions has increased to include, for example, nursing, while at the same time social and political developments have led to criticism of and challenge to the concepts of professions and professionalism. Problems in professional ethics include both regulation of the professional-client relationship and the role and status of professions in society. A central question for ethics is whether there are values or virtues specific to particular professions or whether the standards of ordinary morality are applicable.

A Brief Methodology for Researching and Evaluating Serious Games and Game-Based Learning

2013 ◽  
pp. 357-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Mayer ◽  
Geertje Bekebrede ◽  
Harald Warmelink ◽  
Qiqi Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Comparative Theory ◽  
Conceptual Research ◽  
Digital Or

In this chapter, the authors present a methodology for researching and evaluating Serious Games (SG) and digital (or other forms of) Game-Based Learning (GBL). The methodology consists of the following elements: 1) frame-reflective analysis; 2) a methodology explicating the rationale behind a conceptual-research model; 3) research designs and data-gathering procedures; 4) validated research instruments and tools; 5) a body of knowledge that provides operationalised models and hypotheses; and 6) professional ethics. The methodology is intended to resolve the dilemma between the “generality” and “standardisation” required for comparative, theory-based research and the “specificity” and “flexibility” needed for evaluating specific cases.

scholarly journals The Moment of Caring: a Manuscript for Reflection on Caring Moments in Nursing Practice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Maurice Charles Drake
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Exploratory Approach ◽  
Client Relationship ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Tidal Processes ◽  
General Perspective

<p>The focus of this study was on understanding the caring nature of the nurse-client relationship as reflected in a story of nursing practice. The story was examined and understood using an interpretive approach which emerged over time and reflected the exploratory and intuitive nature of the work.  The processes of reflection, immersion and crystallisation were used to generate an exploratory theoretical work on caring. The method was called 'The Hermeneutic Wave' because it focused on interpreting and understanding textual reflection of experience, and reflected the ebb and flow nature of the processes of interpretation used. These tidal processes involved moving out of the story to conceptualise what was occurring within the story from a general perspective, and then re-layering the conceptualisations back over the story to examine congruity and differences, and to uncover understanding and meaning of practice. These processes were repeated until 'The Moment of Caring: A Manuscript for Reflection on Caring Moments in Nursing Practice' emerged.  The manuscript consists of four phases; Phase One - Readiness to Co-participate, where the nurse and client fulfil expected health related roles and their relationship is characterised as one of apartness where they are relating in regard to their distinct roles; Phase Two - In Relationship, where the nurse and client are in the process of moving from a relationship characterised by apartness to that of oneness where they relate as person-to-person; Phase Three - 'The Moment of Caring', where the nurse and client transcend relating from a position of apartness and relate as one; and Phase Four - Redefining Wholeness, where the nurse's and client's understanding of their shared experience results in growth in their beings, and where their relationship moves from oneness to apartness in response to this growth.  The manuscript 'The Moment of Caring' provides nurses with a framework for reflection in as well as on nursing practice, offers an emerging exploratory approach to the development of theory from practice, and contributes to the growing body of knowledge of caring within nursing practice in New Zealand and internationally.</p>

Ethical Duty of a Lawyer to Defend His Client in a Criminal Case: Issues and Challenges in India

2021 ◽  
pp. 232200582110607
Author(s):  
Pravin Mishra ◽  
Vijay Pratap Tiwari
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Criminal Case ◽  
Ethical Duty ◽  
Client Relationship ◽  
The Right ◽  
Legal Battle

The fate of a criminal case to a large extent depends upon choosing the right lawyer. But the choice of a right lawyer requires some amount of experience and expertise, which a layman intending to hire a lawyer may not be equipped with. Even if the client has made a smart choice in identifying a right lawyer for him, the lawyer so identified might not be willing to accept a brief for the reasons best known to the lawyer. At times a peculiar situation may arise before the lawyer where the lawyer seeks to withdraw from representing the accused. There are various pitfalls to the client’s right from the stage of making a choice of a competent lawyer to defend the accused up to the end of the legal battle. The article deals with the professional ethics involved when a counsel accepts a brief or seeks to withdraw from representing an accused and terminate the advocate–client relationship.

Ethical Practice and Rehabilitation Counselor Education

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 10-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda R. Shaw ◽  
Vilia M. Tarvydas
Keyword(s):  
Counselor Education ◽  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Counselor Educators ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselor ◽  
Direct Relevance ◽  
Client Relationship ◽  
High Standards

Rehabilitation counselor educators are obligated to act in accordance with the Code of Professional Ethics for Rehabilitation Counselors. This obligation is particularly strong for rehabilitation counselor educators, not only because of the importance of protecting the rights of students and the clients those students may serve, but also because of the importance of modeling high standards of ethical behavior. Because the Code historically has been focused on the counselor-client relationship, educators may have viewed it as having only limited relevance in their own work. The 2002 . revised Code includes several clarifications and provides specific guidance to rehabilitation counselor educators that should assist them in their efforts to practice ethically. This article discusses the challenges that rehabilitation counselor educators routinely confront and highlights several of the changes to the Code of Professional Ethics that have direct relevance to rehabilitation education. Implications for implementation of the code within academia are included.

scholarly journals The Mask of the Underworld Daemon—Some Remarks on the Perseus-Gorgon Story

1955 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Croon
Keyword(s):  
Major Part ◽  
Hot Springs ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Greek World ◽  
Made In

At the VIIth Congress for the History of Religions, held at Amsterdam in 1950, the central question was posed whether a mythical-ritual pattern could be discerned in various ancient and modern civilisations. Reading the Congress Report, one does not get the impression that many final and far-reaching conclusions have been reached. Various conflicting views were brought forward in the section-meetings. But meanwhile the discussion goes on. And it may be not without interest to inquire into some individual cases where a ritual background behind some famous myth can be reconstructed, if not beyond all doubt, at least with a high degree of probability. In the following pages such an attempt is made in the case of the Seriphian Perseus-legend.The present writer believes that there is a clue to the understanding of this story, which has been overlooked hitherto, namely its connexion with hot springs. A certain number of cults, myths, and legends were connected with such springs in the ancient Greek world; that they all show in origin a chthonic aspect is self-evident. But to dwell upon all of them would fall beyond the scope of this article. Let us for the present moment turn our attention to the thermal springs of that tiny piece of rock in the Aegean round which a major part of the Perseus-story centres.

Medical Ethics: Professional or Universal?

1972 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Veatch
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Hippocratic Oath ◽  
Professional Group ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Scientific Enterprise ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Ethical Point ◽  
Special Knowledge ◽  
Separate Identity

From the first, professional ethics has been a hybrid. The Hippocratic Oath exudes that ambiguity. The scientific enterprise, which basically has universalistic tendencies, created a group with special knowledge and interests; eventually it took on a separate identity as a profession. Concern for the ethical point of view, which has the universalizability of normative statements as its foundation, is particularized by focusing on a specialized body of knowledge of a restricted professional group.

Towards a competency assessment tool for nurses in ethics meetings

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart Cusveller ◽  
Annemiek Schep-Akkerman
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Competency Assessment ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
High Degree

Background: Nurses require specific knowledge, skills and attitudes to participate competently in various forms of ethics meetings. The literature does not state the contents of the knowledge, skills and attitudes nurses need for ethics meetings. Without such a competency profile, it cannot be assessed in how far nurses actually possess these qualities for ethics meetings. Objective: Corroborating an existing profile of the requisite knowledge, skills and attitudes in the form of a questionnaire contributes to the development of a tool to determine the competence nurses need for ethics meetings. Question: In how far can this profile be confirmed by a quantitative follow-up in a random sample? Design: A questionnaire was developed to determine in how far nurses with prior involvement in ethics meetings recognise the earlier competency profile as important and comprehensive. Participants: It was made available to subscribers of the digital newsletter of three widely read nursing journals in the Netherlands. Data collection and analysis took place in the spring of 2013. Ethical considerations: Care was taken to state explicitly in the questionnaire that participation in the survey was completely voluntary and anonymous. Findings: To a high degree, nurses with involvement in ethics meetings recognise the knowledge, skills and attitudes from the earlier interviews when presented as a survey. Discussion: Although the sample was small, the respondents and the results reflect known characteristics of nurses serving on ethics meeting. Conclusion: This may be helpful to recruit and prepare nurses for professional ethics in nursing care, and to develop a tool to assess to what extent nurses actually possess competence for ethics meetings.

scholarly journals The Moment of Caring: a Manuscript for Reflection on Caring Moments in Nursing Practice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Maurice Charles Drake
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Exploratory Approach ◽  
Client Relationship ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Tidal Processes ◽  
General Perspective

<p>The focus of this study was on understanding the caring nature of the nurse-client relationship as reflected in a story of nursing practice. The story was examined and understood using an interpretive approach which emerged over time and reflected the exploratory and intuitive nature of the work.  The processes of reflection, immersion and crystallisation were used to generate an exploratory theoretical work on caring. The method was called 'The Hermeneutic Wave' because it focused on interpreting and understanding textual reflection of experience, and reflected the ebb and flow nature of the processes of interpretation used. These tidal processes involved moving out of the story to conceptualise what was occurring within the story from a general perspective, and then re-layering the conceptualisations back over the story to examine congruity and differences, and to uncover understanding and meaning of practice. These processes were repeated until 'The Moment of Caring: A Manuscript for Reflection on Caring Moments in Nursing Practice' emerged.  The manuscript consists of four phases; Phase One - Readiness to Co-participate, where the nurse and client fulfil expected health related roles and their relationship is characterised as one of apartness where they are relating in regard to their distinct roles; Phase Two - In Relationship, where the nurse and client are in the process of moving from a relationship characterised by apartness to that of oneness where they relate as person-to-person; Phase Three - 'The Moment of Caring', where the nurse and client transcend relating from a position of apartness and relate as one; and Phase Four - Redefining Wholeness, where the nurse's and client's understanding of their shared experience results in growth in their beings, and where their relationship moves from oneness to apartness in response to this growth.  The manuscript 'The Moment of Caring' provides nurses with a framework for reflection in as well as on nursing practice, offers an emerging exploratory approach to the development of theory from practice, and contributes to the growing body of knowledge of caring within nursing practice in New Zealand and internationally.</p>

scholarly journals MUHASEBECİLERİN VE MÜKELLEFLERİN IESBA’NIN ETİK İLKELERİ TEMELİNDE MUHASEBECİLERİN MESLEKİ DAVRANIŞLARINA BAKIŞI: ESKİŞEHİR İLİNDE BİR ARAŞTIRMA

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vedat EKERGİL ◽  
Ahmet ONAY
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Accounting Profession ◽  
Operating Period ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Societal Values ◽  
High Degree

Accounting is a profession in which the community expects a high degree of commitment to ethical values. Accounting profession ethics brings limits on behaviours of professional members due to laws, societal values and traditions in order for professional activities to be carried out as required. IFAC, the accounting profession of the global profession, has published a Code of Ethics for Accounting Professionals Handbook, which has been comprehensively taken into account by the ethical principles that must be observed by accountants. IFAC's work has led many countries as well as legal arrangements in our country. Our study has been tested on the sample consisting of professional members and business owners / managers operating in Eskişehir province where the accountants' ethical principles are taken into consideration in their occupational behaviour. The data obtained from the accountants are analysed in terms of gender, professional experience and the number of taxpayers held and the data obtained from taxpayers are analysed in detail in terms of the operating period of the enterprises and the fee paid for accounting services.The opinions of accountants are not differentiated by gender but they are different depending on professional experience and number of taxpayers possessed.On the other hand, it was determined that the opinions of taxpayers differ according to duration of operations of taxpayers, but they do not differ according to units they paid for accounting services. In addition, analyses were made about the views of accountants and taxpayers on their professional ethics in general.

Discussing Terms: Professions, Professionals, Professionalism

Prospects ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burton J. Bledstein
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Activity ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Coherent Body ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

“Who's a Professional? Who Cares?” asked a prominent historian nearly a decade ago. In the essay that followed the answer was shrewdly crafted. Because so many Americans have cared to call their occupational activity professional, few have succeeded in bringing to the concept a consistent and coherent interpretation. When nearly everyone “cares,” from gamblers and killers to jet fighters and physicians, the question “who's a professional?” loses its seriousness of meaning. The criticism cut to the bone. It served to question the integrity of the historical field of inquiry. Ironically, if students of the professions can not find a coherent body of knowledge in the subject, a similarity of pattern, then they are using the concept falsely – that is, unprofessionally.

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