RSVP for Emerging Professionals Roundtable Event, August 3rd! NCPDP Emerging Professionals: Come join your peers next week for a special roundtable event Thursday, August 3, 2017, in Minneapolis during the August Joint Technical Work Group Meetings.
The four principles of health care ethics are autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. The Four Principles of Health Care Ethics. The basic definitions of each of the four principles of health care ethics are commonly known and used often in the English language, but they take on special meaning when being utilized in a medical setting.
Duty of Care. A duty of care is owed to all foreseeable plaintiffs, which means that a reasonable person would have foreseen a risk of injury to the plaintiff under the circumstances. If such a duty exists, the standard of care is that of a reasonably careful or prudent person. In other words, a person's act or omission is measured against that of a reasonably careful person in similar circumstances. In certain circumstances, a person may be subjected to a heightened standard of care.