The document summarizes the key topics covered in a physiotherapy ethics workshop, including:
1) An introduction to ethics, human rights, and ethical principles like beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and justice.
2) Ethics in research, including obtaining ethical approval and informed consent, and responsibilities around confidentiality.
3) Ethics in clinical practice, including issues like privacy, patient rights, and frameworks like the South African Constitution and HPCSA guidelines.
4) Duties of physiotherapists to patients, colleagues, themselves, society, and the environment.
4. Ethics = framework for helping to make good decisions in morally ambiguous situations Good? Ambiguous?
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