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| Principle 1: beneficience (definition) |
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| OT personnel shall demonstrate a concern for the well-being of the recipients of their services |
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| Principle 2: nonmaleficence (definition) |
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| OT personnel shall take reasonable precautions to avoid imposing or inflicting harm upon the recipient of services or to his or her property |
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| Principle 3: autonomy, privacy, confidentiality (definition) |
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| OT persnonel shall respect the recipient and/or their surrogate(s) as well as the recipient's rights |
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| Principle 4: duties (definition) |
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| OT personnel shall achieve and continually maintain high standards of competence |
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| Principle 5: justice (definition) |
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| Ot personnel shall comply with laws and Association policies guiding the profession of OT |
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| Principle 6: veracity (definition) |
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| OT personnel shall provide accurate information about OT services |
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| Principle 7: fidelity (definition) |
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| OT personnel shall treat colleagues and other professionals with fairness, discretion, and integrity |
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| ethical distress (definition) |
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| whena therapist knows the correct action to take but an existing barrier prevents the therapist from taking this course of action |
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| ethical dilemmas (definition) |
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| when there are two or more potentially morally correct ways to solve the problem. However, these solutions are exclusive; therefore, choosing one course of action prohibits acting on the other choice. |
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| What is the Standards and Ethics Commission (SEC)? |
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| the component of AOTA that is responsible for the Code of Ethics, and the Standards of Practice of the profession. |
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| a formal expression of disapproval of conduct communicated privately and retained in the individual's certification file |
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| a formal expression of disapproval that is public |
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