Personal Ethical Code of Conduct (Rough Draft)
Introduction
What is a guide to a successful business or successful life? However you choose to explore this question, I believe it starts with an individual’s ethical code of conduct. There are many professional, ethical codes of conducts. However, your personal code of conduct is the first guide to how well you adhere to your professional code of conduct. What does “code of conduct” mean? Focus on religious laws, honors, moral codes, and ethics. A code of conduct is a set of rules outlining the social norms and rules and responsibilities of, or proper practices for, an individual, party or organization (Dictionary.com).
A Code
A code is a communication or publishing of how we operate on a personal
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Michael Hoffman). It helps guide your mind to think respectively about how you want to represent yourself to society as an individual or within a group. The needs for a code of conduct includes: (Ethics Resource Center)
distinguishing appropriate behavior
upholding high standards of practice
providing a basis for self-evaluation
creating a reference point for professional behavior and responsibilities
servicing as a means of occupational identity and maturity
Profession
My profession is Certified Medical Assistant (CMA). As explained, by The American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA), its code of conduct gives definition and clarity to the professional responsibilities of credentialed CMAs (AAMA). (2) How CMAs conduct their work as professionals is very important in the maintenance of respect and confidence among colleagues, employers, students, and he public.
Professional code of conduct: Medical
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Encourage other medical assistants to act in a professional manner consistent with the certification standards and responsibilities (Overview).
When you see your coworkers operating outside or other than the code of conduct, don’t be afraid to say something. If you know and don’t say anything to attempt correction, you are just a reliable or guilty.
Personal Ethical Code of Conduct
1. Integrity – adherence to moral and ethical principle; soundness of moral character; honesty (Dictionary.com).
Live conscientiously, straight forward and sincere. Be honest and dependable.
2. Caring – to be concerned or solicitous; have thought or regard Dictionary.com).
There must be a “care” to care about others. In doing so, be considerate and fair. Exercise the will to help those in need without ridicule.
3. Excellence – the fact or state of excelling; superiority; eminence (Dictionary.com)
Although I am not a perfectionist, I want to know that I have done my best on any due task. I want to always give my best at what I do. Don’t procrastinate and shortcut paths of achievement, strive.
4. Attitude – manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc. with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, especially of the mind
A code of ethics provides a standard by which nurses conduct themselves and their practice, observing ethical obligations of the profession and providing quality care. To achieve its purpose, a code of ethics must be understood, internalized, and used by nurses in all aspects of their work” (Aliakvari, 2015, p. 494).
The Code of Ethics can help us understand what our professional responsibilities are to the children in our care, to the families of the children, to co-workers, and to the community and society in general.
Lastly, Medical assistants are of great help to the physicians they work for. They make it possible for the practitioners to be effective in their practice. Just like all the other practitioners in the medical field, the medical assistants are expected to maintain high standards in the field. For the medical assistants this will include acting on the instructions given by the practitioners and adhering to the code of ethics as set by AAMA. The medical assistants are also expected to make sound decisions when faced with medical dilemmas. All this should be focused on giving the patient quality care.
“Those who care for others… live a life , in a divine way, above others” -Anonymous. Even as small children, we are taught to treat others as we would like to be treated, but as we grow older, the world becomes more complex, and the length to which we should stretch ourselves for others becomes unclear. Some people may believe that one must always put others first, while others put other people’s worries and safety far behind their own. Throughout this year I have gathered artifacts, some support these theories, while others do not, and a rew support my own theory. I believe that the most healthy and appropriate way to approach this moral grey area is to always consider other’s needs and feelings, but you must also consider your needs and know
The term ethics s defined as a set of moral principles that a person or society sets to govern their behaviors (Iqbal, Bhatti, & Zaheer, 2013). This definition is concomitant with the idea of knowing what is right and wrong and making a conscious decision to follow what is right (Paul & Elder, 2006). Conversely, a system of ethics is a set of instructions that govern an organization or particular social structure. This includes a combination of interrelated values that are devised as the most appropriate mode of conduct for a particular social structure (Paul & Elder, 2006).
We human beings live in a society. The society or the social world we live in is based on human cooperation. In other words, the individuals in a society do not live in an isolated self-centered world. The human interactive system presupposes ethical and moral standpoint from which we operate. My personal ethical system is based on “service before self” and “love your neighbors as yourself”.
To completely understand the ethics of care we must first observe what it is not. Care ethics does not encourage us to be inconsiderate when addressing a task or a person. It actually supports the acts of sacrifice and empathy for others in order to utilize the correct response when using the care ethics theory. Examples used in the text explained how people utilize and perceive care ethics in different manners both good and bad. When someone confronts a situation, putting their individual interest first assuming a reward in return for their act of care, in reality there demonstrating ethical egoism. Although we have individuals who use care ethics in a correct and moral manner implementing ethical virtue when dealing with their loved ones.
A written code of ethics is known as a set of principles or rules that are used by a corporation or business, individuals and organizations to oversee their decision making in choices that deal with right and wrong. With some code of ethics depending on the contexts there are penalties or sanctions that can result from a violation. A code of ethics is usually used in a business or professional environment to guarantee the public that corporations and/or members of regulated professions are acting in a socially and professionally adequate behavior. Companies or organization that have established or published their code of ethics have in place a review process and a appeal procedure to guard against malevolent or self-serving
Employees should act with honesty and integrity at all times, any witnessed infraction should be reported at the earliest opportunity to the manager of the employee making the report. If the employee’s manager is suspected of an ethical violation the employee should report the infraction to another member of the management team, or one of the owners.
Although I have never really thought about how my own ethics came into play when learning and reading about all these other ethical principles, this essay is forcing me to ponder about where my guidelines fall in accordance with those that we have studied in class.
For my personal code of ethics I vow to judge someone based off of their entire character and not one single action, to respect an individual’s ability to self-rule, and to be honest and respect myself and others. Virtue ethics is very important to me because I believe someone’s character says the most about him or her. I think that a person’s actions help define who someone is, but those actions come from that same person’s character. I also believe that a single action that someone chooses to make shouldn’t define that person entirely. Whether the action is good or bad, it shouldn’t determine how a person is perceived. I believe this because second chances are very important to me and if someone makes a mistake they should be able to make
The code of ethics is a significant component in the modern business environment and all the professions at large. A code of ethics is intended to bring sobriety and instill integrity in professions. While codes of ethics exist at professional level, the values that truly shape the character of an individual emerge from an individual’s core-values, morals and beliefs. In this regards, it can be argued that personal ethics to a great extent shape both the personal and professional life of an individual (Paliwal, 2006). This paper discusses my personal code of ethics and also takes an analytical look at the code of ethics of my profession.
As per the American Psychological Association Ethical Principles and Code of Conduct (2010), psychologists must work to benefit others, safeguard the rights and welfare of others, establish trusting relationships, maintain professionalism, comply with ethical practices, promote honesty, correct any wrongdoings, positively contribute to the field, and treat others with respect and dignity. It is also the responsibility of the psychologist to provide proper training and supervision of their test administrators in order to refrain from misuse of any given test. Proper training includes a master’s degree at an accredited University and classroom experience in test development, standardization, statistics, administration, scoring and interpretation
According to Mowen (1987) and Ramayah (2002), the word "attitude" comes from the Latin term, aptus which means "fitness" or "adaptedness". Fishbein and Ajzen (1975) conceptualized attitude as the amount of affect for or against some object. In recent years, the trend is to link attitude to the concept of feelings rather than beliefs. Mowen (1987) in his book entitled Consumer Behaviour, defined attitudes as consisting of the following:
A real, sincere compassionate helpfulness concerns principally yourself and others. However, it shall never be submissive.