The Importance Of Ethical Principles In Healthcare

Ethical principles are a guide for the physicians that help them to a better delivery of health care.
Beneficence means doing everything for the sake of the patient, so all actions are intended to benefit the patient. A good example of it is all the procedures applied in an ER room are intended to save the patient’s life.
Non-maleficence is based on the idea of “doing no harm,” is very similar to the principle of beneficence. Basically for the principle of non-maleficence means to be the direct cause of harm done to a patient, so not just to promote the well-being of the patient or to prevent harm to them, but to not be the direct cause of the harm.
Ethics committee is a group of healthcare professionals that must develop guidelines and