Principles of Professionalism in Health Care A Guide to Building Relationships of Trust

This book details how ethical and professional behaviors are the essential key to nurturing the important trust bond with patients.

Principles of Professionalism in Health Care is an evidence-based exploration of professionalism in all domains. Each chapter sets out professional ideals and responsibilities, showing how application of these values translates into optimal patient interactions. Each chapter ends with focused activities intended to sharpen the learner's insight by offering tutorial-type engagements and self-study pursuits. "You be the Judge" poses various types of practitioner behaviors, challenges the reader to put themselves in the role as the regulator, and then reveals various licensing bodies' disciplinary decisions.

Key topics include the ethics and virtues of care, boundary setting and maintenance, truth telling, empathic communication, conflicts of interest, workplace civility, professional responsibilities and fitness to practice.

The foreword for Principles of Professionalism in Health Care: A Guide to Building Relationships of Trust is from esteemed scholars Richard and Sylvia Cruess. They write: this book "is a most welcome addition to the tools available to those responsible for the formation of practitioners within the healthcare system and for the organizations whose mandate is to ensure that the professions conduct themselves in a way that merits societal trust. It is a powerful combination of theory, that allows us to understand the task at hand, and practical guides for its implementation. The section entitled 'You be the judge' is particularly useful as it highlights the points of tension inherent in practice and allows learners to reflect on these issues in a safe environment."