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    Booklet 1: General Ethical Guidelines for The Healthcare Professionals

    guidelines for good practice in the healthcare professions, specifically focusing on general ethical
    guidelines for healthcare professionals in South Africa.

    Main points

    1. Healthcare practitioners must always regard concern for the best interests or well-being of
    their patients as their primary professional duty.
    2. Healthcare practitioners must respect the privacy, confidentiality, and dignity of patients.
    3. Healthcare practitioners must seek informed consent from patients ahead of providing any
    treatment or care.
    4. Healthcare practitioners should recognise the right of patients to be fully involved in
    decisions about their treatment and care.
    5. Healthcare practitioners should deal responsibly with scarce healthcare resources and refrain
    from providing a service that is not needed.

    Core ethical values

    1. Respect for persons


    2. Beneficence and non-maleficence
    3. Human rights
    4. Autonomy
    5. Integrity
    6. Truthfulness
    7. Confidentiality
    8. Compassion
    9. Tolerance
    10. Justice
    11. Professional competence and self-improvement
    12. Community

    How to solve an ethical dilemma

    To solve an ethical dilemma, healthcare practitioners can follow these steps:

    1. Formulate the problem: Determine whether the issue at hand is an ethical one.
    2. Gather information: Collect all relevant information, including clinical, personal, and social
    data. Seek information from authoritative sources such as ethical guidelines, professional
    associations, respected colleagues, and previous experiences in similar situations.
    3. Consider the available options: Identify potential solutions and evaluate the principles and
    values that each option upholds.
    4. Make an ethical assessment: Assess the ethical content of each option by asking questions
    such as:
    o What are the likely consequences of each option?
    o Which values, duties, and rights are most important in this situation?
    o What are the weaknesses of each option?
    o How would I want to be treated in a similar situation?
    o How would the patient want to be treated?
    5. Discuss the proposed solution: Engage in a discussion with those who may be affected by
    the decision, such as the patient, colleagues, or other stakeholders.
    6. Act on the decision: Implement the chosen solution with sensitivity to others who may be
    affected. Take appropriate actions based on the ethical assessment.
    7. Regularly re-evaluate the decision: Continuously review and reassess the decision made,
    being open to the possibility of acting differently in the future if new information or
    circumstances arise.

    Steps in seminar slides

    1. Identify the dilemma


    2. Identify the potential issues involved
    3. Review the relevant ethical codes
    4. Consult the applicable laws and regulations
    5. Obtain consultations
    6. Consider courses of action
    7. Enumerate consequences od decisions
    8. Choose best course

    It is important to note that ethical dilemmas can be complex and may require consultation with
    colleagues, supervisors, or ethics committees for guidance. Additionally, healthcare practitioners
    should always adhere to the ethical guidelines and legal obligations specific to their profession and
    jurisdiction.

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