ethica working relationships with peer dental hygiene students

Running head : Working ethics and dental hygiene students University

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Ethical behavior refers to general standards upon which the concepts of rights and wrongs are hinged within the society . These standards can in turn be evaluated by by their ability to inculcate good and abate harm Likewise , these standards in turn help in entrenching the promotion of health and disease prevention . The purpose of a professional code of ethics is to bring in large scale ethical consciousness , quality professional decision making and performance

by the members of a certain profession . The specific aims of professional ethical behavior is to instill professional and value consciousness and responsibility , to help in the understanding of ethical matters and to guide the professional bodies to make more informed choices , to set up standards for professional evaluation , and to read out the professional code of ethical behavior that should be expected by the general public of a certain professional body

Ethical working relationships with the peer dental hygiene is very important since it contains fundamental principles that is needed to drive the dental health care providers into the right working attitude Under this fundamental principles exist the working ethics which basically portend the concept of virtues and vices . Ethics therefore gear health care givers and health hygienists towards doing the right thing to the society such as the prevention of diseases and being at the disposal of the society to offer treatment to the sick . In a nutshell ethics inculcates the right professional conduct among dental health care givers as a body of professionals (Wilkins , 2004

It is also within the concept of fundamental principles that the concept of universality comes in . The concept of universality has it that if an action is considered good or evil by one party (a group or an individual , then the concept becomes equally good or evil respectively . This makes it incumbent upon the dental hygienists to ensure that their practices become conformant with the surrounding societal expectations

The concept of complementarity also falling under this rubric , assumes the presence of duties or obligations to justice and the basic human rights . This concept does ensure that the rights (such as the rights to access treatment ) of the patients are catered for fully . To this end the dental hygienists and dental health care providers must ensure acting towards patients in a manner concomitant with the way they would also prefer in reverse roles

Ethical working relationships gears towards the fulfillment of the needs of the community . This does not only require of dental health care providers to be more sensitive to the needs of the society around them but also demand of the same to exhibit concern for the needs of the global environment surrounding them and the needs to preserve the resources around them . This calls for responsible action from the dental health care fraternity to form and maintain proper disposal habits to avoid pollution (Gorlin , 1999

Conversely , the concept of both individual and collective...