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Ethics Laws Of Conduct Of Society

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We can say that Ethic are the rules of conduct of society , it has their origin in the Old Greece when the first philosophers wrote about a series of behaviors who might be follow for people in order to maintain a disciplinary and correct values. According to Dictionary.com: Is the branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions.
There are then, a series of ethics rules in which health care personnel (hospitals, nurses, emergency clinic for mentioning a few) are to be followed to keep harmonic environment and respect for others.
A situation in which would be unethical is if a nurse exceeds the scope of practice by entering in a room in harsh way, do not presenting itself to the patient, doing a bad practice and leaving the room non protecting private patient information. This kind of conduct especially the last one must be take very serious and even suspend the license of the nurse. As supervisor I would take very important the fact the team follows the legal and ethical responsibilities and suspend the nurse before more things happens since all health workers are required by HIPAA (Heath Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Public Law) to have knowledge of many legal and ethical issues concerning their individual field and health care in general since address the use and disclosure of individual’s health information

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