Author Question: Community standards: a. may serve as the legal criteria for determining whether a practitioner ... (Read 22 times)

newbem · **on:** Jul 30, 2018

Community standards:

a. may serve as the legal criteria for determining whether a practitioner provided an acceptable standard of care.
b. always dictate the development of ethical codes.
c. are the only basis for making sound ethical decisions.
d. are more rigorous than ethical standards.
e. are essentially the same thing as ethical standards.

Question 2

Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

a. Codes are intended to be a blueprint that would remove the need for the use of judgment and ethical reasoning.
b. Ethical codes tend to be conservative by nature.
c. Codes were developed to protect the profession from outside regulation, and thus they reflect what most professionals can agree on.
d. Final authority must rest with the practitioners in making decisions.
e. Ethical codes need to be understood within a cultural framework, and therefore they must be adapted to specific cultures.