HLT 312 Week 4 discussion questions

Week 4 of Ethics for Healthcare Professionals.

Discussion 1:  Health care professionals are morally obligated to ensure their clinical decisions are informed and reflect best practices. The first step in ethical decision-making is to gather as much relevant information as possible. Describe the types of guidelines you would use to decide that you have as much information as you need to ensure an ethical decision. In replies to peers, discuss under what conditions, if any, you might decide not to act according to your own moral obligations. Provide an example to justify your response.
 

Discussion 2: In any professional career one should prefer to act ethically. Explain types of reflective practices and methods and how to integrate them into your work life to ensure that you think critically about both the art and the science of your patient care delivery. Provide examples. In replies to peers, describe what it means to act ethically in your professional career.