Beliefs, customs, and traditions that are reflected in personal convictions about right and wrong.

Indirect Patient Care

Health Unit Coordinators are found in all of the following settings, EXCEPT:

Absolute Moral Duties Based on Principle

Unwritten Rule

Standards of behavior that are personal

Characteristics or conduct worthy of praise or admiration because they advance moral principle.

Involves dedicating yourself to something, like a person or a cause.

Influenced by different professions, organizations, & institutions.

Spoken Defamation

Surgery or treatment to minors.

Codes of ethics related to health care delivery do provide solutions to issues but serve as guides for ethical and moral conduct.

This is an oath, pledged by nurses on graduation that states the ethical standards of their profession.

The health care worker asks for clarification and assistance when unsure of any aspect of care.

The ability to discern right from wrong, good from evil, and propriety from impropriety.

Behave only in those ways you feel appropriate for all people, at all times.

Requires that health care professionals remain within their scope of practice.

A patient who usually requires health care for less than 24 hours