Personal Code of Ethics Statement Revised

Leadership and Ethics in Healthcare Personal Code of Ethics Statement

Maria Estrella

Kaplan University

Leadership and Ethics in Healthcare Personal Code of Ethics Statement

A Personal Code of Ethics: Perform all professional activities with just and fairness, honesty, faithfully and respect that will profile my professional nature in the medical field.

Professional Ethics Statement for Pearl Brown

The medical field just like any other profession is faced with several challenges affecting both the staff and patients. This further affects service delivery as patients are not offered the professional care and treatment they need (Unger, 2012). I have therefore made it my personal duty to not allow these issues to affects my service delivery. It is important for the patients to know their rights so that they can raise an alarm when violated.

Some of the rights that every patient is expected to enjoy are: right to fast and efficient attendance upon admittance, right to know what their ailing from, right to be consulted before making any important decision for example in the case of surgery, right to have their health issues private and right to proper treatment and satisfactory answers to every questions they might have.

However, meeting all these rights may be challenging as other factors may hinder implementation. Some of these challenges in the medical fields include: having a balance in care quality and efficiency, improving the general access to health care, sustaining an efficient and effective workforce, addressing cases that involve end-of-life incidences and allocating the available limited medications and donor organs to the best recipient.

These challenges have made it hard to perform all activities without favoring a given party over the other. This is why I have chosen to perform all my professional activities with just and fairness, honesty, faithfully, respects and fairness despite the challenges involved in the process.

It is hard to deny a relative or friend a kidney transplant when the recipients are many and the kidney available is limited. It is also hard to deny one’s personal free time to attend to a critically ill patient in the ICU. It is further harder to watch a loved one die when you can readily steal medicine from the facility and take it to them. All these challenges are what have forced many professional medical practitioners to act unethically (Luegenbiehl, 2010). The love for the family may force one to do unintended unethical activities in the line of duty. It is with these circumstances in mind that I choose to put my professional duty over personal satisfaction, family and friends.

I choose to offer my services, both upholding the facility code of conduct and my ethical obligation. I choose to offer my professional services, without favoring friends or relatives. I choose to selflessly dedicate my medical skills to all patients who come to this institution. If family and friends come in my line of duty, I will have them follow the right procedures to receive healthcare just like the rest of the patients.

It is not right to offer inadequate medical services to any patient; my guiding principle will be “do unto others as you would like to be done unto you”. I will be honest, fair and just in my service delivery and respects and offer my best medical services to the patients I will attend to. I will not compromise my code of ethic statement for any selfish personal gains. As an ethics-based health care professional in this institution, I will do my best to meet or exceed my leadership and personal ethic code of ethics statement in my daily patient-doctor relationship and service delivery.

Reference

Ladd, J. (2011) "The Quest for a Code of Professional Ethics: An Intellectual and Moral Confusion". Ethical Issues in Medicine. Ed. Deborah G. Johnson. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 130-136.

Luegenbiehl, C. (2010)" Codes of Ethics and the Moral Education of Doctors", Business and Professional Ethics Journal 2 (1983): 41-61. Rpt. in Ethical Issues in Medicine. Ed. Deborah G. Johnson. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 137-154.

Unger, S. (2012) “Codes of Medicine Ethics”. Ethical Issues in Medicine. Ed. Deborah G. Johnson. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall. 105