The main differences between professional and non-professional, working in the sector:
The health care professionals are often assumed to have a duty to work, even if faced with personal risk. This is particularly for professionals (doctors and nurses). However, the health service also depends on non-professionals, such as porters, cooks and cleaners. The professional can make decision, a specialist can make decision about patient’s situation, but a nurse is a professional who cannot make a decision, but we are all human, even a doctor may make mistake about the dosage of the drugs that is taken by patients so the nurses should be aware of that, and check the patient information almost often, and check the process of their illness. As a health care professional your priority is your patients. Even as a non-professional health care, they have a moral obligation to work….
Every health care professional faces ethical dilemmas from time to time. There are fundamental principles of ethics when we talk about ethical issues in health care: confidentiality that you need to respect for individual privacy.
Autonomy, that means they need to ensure consent is given by patient or their families.
Honesty means the patient need to be given the right and honest information.
You may encounter a different situation as a health care professional. You may see a 15 years old girl who has severe stomach pain. The girl trusts you that she thinks she is pregnant and doesnt want her parents to know. What would you do at this dilemma? Will you respect her privacy or you think you have to let her parents know due to she is under…
