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framework to help them ensure the safety of patients and their fellow healthcare providers.

Importance of Bioethics

refers method of inquiry that helps people to understand the morality of human behavior.

expected standards of moral behavior of a particular group as described in the group’s formal code of professional ethics.

ethics applied to life; relates to human life or ethics of the life sciences-health care

science that guides health care provider toward moral ethical behavior in delivery of excellent health practices, services to patient, client, family, colleagues and community

relates to human life; focused on moral issues in health care field

relates to human health and it is considered ethics for health profession

refers to ethical issues that occur in nursing practice

division of ethics that relates to professional behavior. It is guided by a set of norms for behavior that suit the profession’s particular aims and goals, and which reflect the profession’s values.

principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character.

quality of act itself; the quality of human act

employs the power of human reasoning which is a natural process

Ethics presents truths that are to be acted upon. It presents data which directly imply and indicate direction for human conduct. Ethics is not studied for the love of learning. All are bound in conscience to apply its principles to their conduct

Ethics treats human acts- it was performed, it was chosen and given existence, it was determined- it does not deal with acts of man (acted upon without thinking).

help a person to lead a life in accordance with moral standards, and there are numerous philosophies that concern these ethics.

study of man as living organism; Ethics deals with man as moral being and moral right

study of human body and behaivior; Ethics deals with the principles of right conduct as applied to man of all times

study of structure and attitude of social group; Ethics study social group concerning the moral and social order

study of man’s intellect free; Study how to direct intellect and how to practice the moral truth

study on correct thinking Deals with correct doing

study of origin and interpretation of laws Deals with knowledge of natural law or moral law common to all men

2 division of ethics

branch of philosophy that deals with the concept of values. It relates the fields of philosophy and moral ethics. It is concerned with the resolving of controversial questions of human morality. It defines the concepts of good and evil, right and wrong.