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Unit 4: Ethics

5 You should limit your study or stop studying if your performance or judgement is affected by your health.

  • You should get help from a doctor or an occupational health professional if you are worried about your health.
  • You should be aware that you may put your service users or yourself at risk if your performance or judgement is affected by your health.

6 You should keep your professional knowledge and skills up to date.

  • You are responsible for your own learning.
  • You should think about and respond positively to feedback you are given.

7 You should act within the limits of your knowledge and skills.

  • You should only carry out an unsupervised task if you feel that you have the appropriate knowledge and skills.
  • You should make sure that you are appropriately supervised for any task that you are asked to carry out.
  • You should ask for help when you need it.
  • You should make sure that you do not claim that you have knowledge and skills which you do not.

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SMILE - Ethics by The BPS code of human research ethics, The HPC guidance on conduct and ethics for students, modified by Marion Kelt Glasgow Caledonian University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://www.bps.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/code_of_human_research_ethics.pdf, http://www.hpc-uk.org/assets/documents/10002D1BGuidanceonconductandethicsforstudents.pdf, http://www.gcal.ac.uk/hr/policies/general/code_of_good_practice_in_research.doc, http://www.gcu.ac.uk/registry/secretariat/documents/EthicsBookletMarch2011asonwebsite.doc.