Ethics, Values, and Codes of Conduct in Health Care Presentation

This presentation delves into the essential aspects of ethics, values, and codes of conduct within the healthcare and social care sectors. It highlights key values such as care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment. The presentation also outlines important codes of conduct, including prioritizing people, practicing effectively, preserving safety, and promoting professionalism. Furthermore, it explores ethical principles like beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and justice, emphasizing their impact on patient care and the development of therapeutic relationships. The presentation also discusses the significance of informed consent, mutual trust, and respect, as well as the importance of interprofessional and multidisciplinary collaboration within healthcare settings. The conclusion reiterates the core values, codes, and principles that healthcare professionals must adhere to, along with the significance of effective teamwork for maintaining professional collaboration. References from various sources support the content presented.

Ethics, values and codes of
conduct in health and social care

Values of Healthcare Professionals
• Care
• Compassion
• Competence
• Communication
• Courage
• commitment

Codes of conduct:
• Prioritizing people
• Practicing effectively
• Preserving safety
• Promoting professionalism and trust

Theories of values and ethics
• Beneficence
• Non-maleficence
• Autonomy and patient self-determination
• justice

Values and ethics impact on delivery of health and social care
• development of therapeutic relationship with patients
• development of good rapport with the patient
• development of mutual trust and respect
• Empathy and compassion exhibited by healthcare professionals make the
patient feel that the professionals are interested in their care
• Taking informed consent from the patients is important aspect of showing
respect and dignity

Values, codes, ethics, of conduct might affect inter-
professional as well as multi-disciplinary mode of working
Some of the important principles, values and codes that are extremely important for
inter-professional, multi-disciplinary working are:
• Listening to each other with open mind without interruption
• sharing of information, knowledge and experiences with those who can benefit
• Development of rapport and bonds with good communication skills
• Strong bonds that remain based on mutual respect and trust reduces the chances
of blame games
• Ensuring constructive feedback among the members
• Power struggles might arise when professionals do not maintain good rapport with
each other

Conclusion:
• Some of the important values that healthcare professionals need to
ensure are care, compassion, communication, competence, courage and
commitment.
• Important codes of conduct are the prioritization of people, preserving
safety , practicing effectively, and even taking the responsibility of
promoting professionalism and trust
• significant ethical principles which need to be followed are beneficence
and non-maleficence, autonomy and dignity and justice
• Therapeutic relationship needs to be developed with patients based on
effective communication, maintaining autonomy and dignity and taking
informed consent
• Effective team-working attributes are important for maintaining
professional team working and collaboration

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