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Emergency
Care Code of Ethics
Professional
status as an Emergency Medical Care Provider is maintained and enriched by the willingness of the individual
practitioner to accept and fulfil obligations to society, other medical
professionals, and the profession of Emergency Medical Care.
As
an Emergency Medical Care Provider, I solemnly pledge myself to the
following code of professional ethics:
- A
fundamental responsibility of the Emergency Medical Care
Professional is to conserve life, to alleviate suffering, to promote
health, to do no harm, and to encourage the quality and equal
availability of emergency medical care.
- The
Emergency Medical Care Professional provides services based on human
need, with respect for human dignity, unrestricted by consideration
of nationality, race creed, colour, or status.
- The
Emergency Medical Care Professional does not use professional
knowledge and skills in any enterprise detrimental to the public
well-being.
- The
Emergency Medical Care Professional respects and holds in confidence
all information of a confidential nature obtained in the course of
professional work unless required by law to divulge such
information.
- The
Emergency Medical Care Professional, as a citizen, understands and
upholds the law and performs the duties of citizenship; as a
professional, the Emergency Medical Care Professional has the
never-ending responsibility to work with concerned citizens and
other health care professionals in promoting a high standard of
emergency medical care to all people.
- The
Emergency Medical Care Professional shall maintain professional
competence and demonstrate concern for the competence of other
members of the Emergency Medical Services health care team.
- An
Emergency Medical Care Professional assumes responsibility in
defining and upholding standards of professional practice and
education.
- The
Emergency Medical Care Professional assumes responsibility for
individual professional actions and judgment, both in dependent and
independent emergency functions, and knows and upholds the laws that
affect the practice of the Emergency Medical Care Professional.
- An
Emergency Medical Care Professional has the responsibility to be
aware of and participate in matters of legislation affecting the
Emergency Medical Service System.
- The
Emergency Medical Care Professional, or groups of Emergency Medical
Care Professionals, who advertise professional service, do so in
conformity with the dignity of the profession.
- The
Emergency Medical Care Professional has an obligation to protect the
public by not delegating to a person less qualified, any service
that requires the professional competence of an Emergency Medical
Care Professional.
- The
Emergency Medical Care Professional will work harmoniously with and
sustain confidence in Emergency Medical Care Professional
associates, the nurses, the physicians, and other members of the
Emergency Medical Services health care team.
- The
Emergency Medical Care Professional refuses to participate in
unethical procedures, and assumes the responsibility to expose
incompetence or unethical conduct of others to the appropriate
authority in a proper and professional manner.
Adapted
for South African use from the Code of Ethics Written by: Charles
Gillespie M.D., USA
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