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| Define Professionalism and its importance to veterinarians |
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Definition
upholding vet oath
-personal commitment to standards
>scientific knowledge and skills
>benefit society
>protection of animal health and welfare
>self improvement
>conscientious, responsibility, adherence to ethics |
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few different def:
- ‘the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad, right and wrong.
- ‘the system or code of morals of a particular group, religion or profession’
- Veterinary professional ethics may be distinguished as relating to veterinarians and others whilst animal ethics relates to moral issuesconcerning animals
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Term
| Why are veterinary ethics important for vets? (3) |
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1. Veterinary professional lives require moral choices to be made every day
2. A true profession is distinguished by its endorsement of ethical values in addition to knowledge and skill
3. Our profession faces a number of contemporary challenges which will determine how veterinarians provide for patients, clients and themselves |
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| What are 4 branches of veterinary ethics and ethical perspectives? |
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1.Descriptive veterinary ethics
Views of veterinarians and students or individual perspective
2.Official veterinary ethics
Professional group ethical standards such as the AVA code of conduct and
student code of conduct or organisational perspective
3.Administrative veterinary ethics
Administrative government bodies that regulate the profession such as the
Veterinary Practitioners Board of NSW and the Veterinary Practice Act and
Regulations or legal perspective
4.Normative veterinary ethics
Norms of veterinary professional behaviour and attitudes or philosophical
perspective |
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Term
| describe the utilitarian model |
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Definition
-ends justify the means
-behavior is judged ethical if provides the greatest good for the greatest number of people |
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| describe moral rights model |
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A behaviour is judged as ethical if it is consistent with fundamental rights
• Freedom to choose
• Freedom of speech
• Freedom of conscience
• Respect for life and personal safety
• Respect for truth
• Right to private property
The emphasis however is what not to do (rules) rather than advice on what to do
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| Describe the justice model |
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Definition
• A behaviour is ethical if it results in an equitable and fair distribution of benefits and costs
• Distributive justice states that individuals who are similar in relevant respects should be treated similarly whilst individuals who differ in relevant respects should be treated differently in proportion to these differences
• Fairness principle states that individuals should support the rules of accepted behaviour provided these are fair and that they have voluntarily accepted the benefits provided by these rules
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| What is an ethical matrix? |
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› A tool for consideration of difficult ethical dilemmas that combines the ethical models discussed with social responsibility or the stakeholder approach
› Columns of the matrix are based on ethical principles:
- Wellbeing or utilitarian theory
- Autonomy or moral rights theory
- Justice or fairness
› Rows of the matrix represent interest groups or stakeholders
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