introduction: the most important variable in success of every organization is attention to ethics. since library and information sciences naturally involve service provision to users, commitment to professional ethics is necessary. the purpose of this research was to determine the attention rate of librarians in isfahan university of medical sciences and isfahan university to professional ethic...

Our profession has no formal audit function. More precisely, our research and publishing activities are not monitored by a formal audit process. Rather, our work rests on a foundation of individual professionalism and responsibility. The result is that ethics, not audits, serve as the primary assurance of integrity and fairness in our research process and the veracity of the products that emerg...

Our profession has no formal audit function. More precisely, our research and publishing activities are not monitored by a formal audit process. Rather, our work rests on a foundation of individual professionalism and responsibility. The result is that ethics, not audits, serve as the primary assurance of integrity and fairness in our research process and the veracity of the products that emerg...

Background: Attention to ethical philosophy and in particular ethical theories is necessary for audits. The purpose of this study is to identify and examine the importance of ethical theories in auditing from the perspective of experts and professional activists. Method: This research is a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. Qualitative part is conducted by Delphi and content ...

introduction: professional ethics is a very important issue for managers who are role models for students and staff. it can also be very effective in organizational activities. the main objective of this research is to describe the result of managers’ self assessment in shiraz teaching hospitals. methods: the present research is a cross-sectional study. the statistical society of this research ...

abstract background and objectives: study of clinical competence in nursing helps determine the quality of health care delivered to patients. given the priority of observance of principles over caretaking and necessity of spirituality existence at the core of health care provision, this study was conducted to investigate clinical competence and its relationship with professional ethics and spir...

abstract: introduction: abiding with ethical discipline in nursing leads to improving nursing services and promoting the patient’s health. due to the fact that patients are the most critical elements in health care organizations, this study was carried out with the aim of determine compliance with professional ethics and its relationship with associated demographic factors from the vantage poin...

The development of applied ethics in recent decades has had great significance for philosophy and society. In this article, I try to characterise this field of philosophical inquiry. I also discuss the relation of applied ethics to social policy and to professional ethics. In the first part, I address the following questions: (1) What is applied ethics? (2) When and why did applied ethics appea...