background: congruity of values in workplace has a determining effect on personal and organizational outcomes. on the other hand, nurses provide invaluable services during the difficult times of sickness. the aim of this research was thus to investigate the relationship between personal and professional values among nurses working in hospitals affiliated to isfahan university of medical science...

ethics are related to the structure and culture of the society. in addition to specialized ethics for every profession, individuals also hold their own personal beliefs and values. this study aimed to investigate iranian occupational therapists’ perception of ethical practice when working with children. for this purpose, qualitative content analysis was used and semi-structured interviews were ...

1. Three Types of Professional Ethics 2. Sociological Foundations 3. Goals of Professional Work and Their Problems 4. Normative and Evaluative Elements in Professional Work 4.1. Duty and Obligation 4.2. Professional Rights 4.3. Virtues in Professional Life 5. Engineering Ethics 5.1. The Service Ideal of Engineering 5.2. The Principle of Double Loyalties 6. Progress and Rationality in Engineerin...

Access to patients and their records for non-clinical purposes has recently come under scrutiny. Research ethics committees control access for research purposes, but audit is explicitly excluded from their remit. Although there is consensus that locally organised audits do not need ethical approval, the status of larger scale audits designed to influence broader practice remains unclear; some j...

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Introduction The auditing profession is unusual in its depth and breadth of authoritative standards, including the AICPA Code of Conduct, state ethics laws and regulations, professional auditing standards and firm–sponsored policies. Despite, or perhaps because of, this extensive set of guidelines, numerous accounts in t...

BACKGROUND Commitment to ethics usually results in nurses' better professional performance and advancement. Professional self-concept of nurses refers to their information and beliefs about their roles, values, and behaviors. The objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between nurses' professional self-concept and professional ethics in hospitals affiliated to Jahrom University o...

co-opting physicians to regulate fee-for-service (ffs) payment is more feasible and simpler to administer than capitation, diagnosis-related groups (drgs) and pay-for-performance. the key lies in designing and revising the fee schedule, which not only defines and sets the fee for each item, but also the conditions of billing. adherence to these regulations must be strictly audited in order to c...

introduction: because teaching code of ethics to nurses has been considered the gold standard for many nursing colleges and universities, the main goal of this article was to evaluate the effect of college of nursing in changing the attitude of nursing students to professional ethics. method: the study was performed as sectional-descriptional on 60 students first year (first and second semester...

Professional codes of ethics are social contracts among members of a professional group, which aim to instigate, encourage and nurture ethical behaviour and prevent professional misconduct, including research and publication. Despite the existence of codes of ethics, research misconduct remains a serious problem. A survey of codes of ethics from 795 professional organizations from the Illinois ...