Professionalism (BE080115PM)

Recommended to all

1. • Provides compassionate care for all patients. • Demonstrates effective and ethical decision making.
2. • Provides treatment for all patients with courtesy and respect, provides treatment options that are sensitive to the needs of the patient, and recognises the patients’ right to choose.
3. Maintains honesty and confidentiality with all patients. • Interacts with patients without discrimination.
4. • Regularly reviews the outcomes of treatment given in an effort to provide the highest standards of patient care, and understands the importance of clinical audit and its regular implementation. • Provides relevant and appropriate preventive education for each patient in a manner that he / she can understand.
5. • Provides accurate costings for treatment and can explain a cost / benefit analysis. • The signs of abuse or neglect in vulnerable groups, and the local procedures that should be followed when reporting such circumstances.