This article examines how cultural misunderstandings and language differences generate ethical dilemmas in crosscultural nursing. It explores the consequences of actions that result when health care providers lack an awareness of the value systems of patients that differ from their own. Described are the principles arising from ethical theory, their application to nursing, and incorporation int...

Background & aim: In the midwifery profession, observing legal and ethical issues in professional practices should be emphasized. Legal and ethical advancements in the realm of midwifery have raised the need for midwives’ awareness as to patient rights. This study was performed to evaluate midwifery students’ knowledge and attitude towards observing the ethical and legal standards of patient ri...

Medical representatives bear the blunt of the significant pressure from the peers and managers to accomplish their market targets which call for an aggressive promotion. This inevitably leads to unethical practices by medical representatives in the sales field. Study of ethic codes influence on ethical behavior of medical representatives in the profession is an under-portrayed component which d...

I recent years there has been an acknowledgement that the discipline of counselling psychology places an emphasis on systemic frameworks that consider the individual within a context of developmental and ecological factors. Counselling Psychology considers diversity as central to its work, and acknowledges the importance of working at the interface of science and practice, maintaining a balance...

A code of ethics is used by individuals to justify their actions within an environment. Medical professionals require a keen understanding of specific ethical codes due to the potential consequences of their actions. Over the past thirty years there has been an increase in the scope and depth of ethics instruction in the medical profession; however the teaching of these codes is still highly va...

BACKGROUND Respect for patient autonomy is an important ethical principle for medical practitioners; however, previous investigators have reported inconsistent attitudes amongst practitioners towards respect for patient autonomy. This study in empirical ethics used qualitative methods to investigate GPs' attitudes towards respect for patient autonomy in consultations for low back pain. OBJECT...

Concern over access by minors to undesirable material over the Internet has led to a urry of regulatory activity by Australian governments since 1993. This article examines these responses in the context of the existing law { focusing upon the development of appropriate legislative models for on-line services and content classiication. Many of these approaches require some level of self-regulat...

G.M. Marakas states [20] “Suggesting that ethics are an important element in any business endeavor seems intuitive. In systems analysis (IS) 1 , however, personal integrity and ethics are often at the center of the conduct of a development effort.” At Edinboro University of PA the Computer Science (CS) program specifies that CS courses contain a section on ethical issues related to the course t...

O ver recent decades, there has been an upsurge in professional and public interest in how biomedical research and clinical trials are conducted. This has coincided with a growing awareness of the importance of ethical considerations in research. The key ethical principles are to safeguard the rights, well-being, and dignity of research participants, and the obligation to reflect on moral aspec...