Health services to be provided in safe and ethical way
1 Health services to be provided in safe and ethical way
A health practitioner must provide health services in a safe and ethical way.
Without limiting subsection (1), a health practitioner must comply with the following principles—
a health practitioner must maintain the necessary competence in the practitioner’s field of practice,
a health practitioner must practise in accordance with accepted professional standards,
a health practitioner must not provide health care of a type that is outside the practitioner’s experience or training,
a health practitioner must not provide services that the practitioner is not qualified to provide,
a health practitioner must not use the possession of particular qualifications to mislead or deceive a client as to the practitioner’s competence in the practitioner’s field of practice or ability to provide treatment,
a health practitioner must prescribe only treatments or appliances that serve the needs of the client,
a health practitioner must recognise the limitations of the treatment the practitioner can provide and refer a client to other competent health practitioners in appropriate circumstances,
a health practitioner must recommend to a client that additional opinions and services be sought, if appropriate,
a health practitioner must assist a client to find other appropriate health care professionals, if required and practicable,
a health practitioner must encourage a client to inform the client’s treating medical practitioner, if any, of the treatments the client is receiving,
a health practitioner must have a sound understanding of adverse interactions between the therapies and treatments the practitioner provides or prescribes and other medications or treatments, whether prescribed or not, that the practitioner is aware a client is taking or receiving,
a health practitioner must ensure appropriate first aid is available to deal with misadventure during a client consultation,
a health practitioner must obtain appropriate emergency assistance, for example, from the Ambulance Service, if there is a serious misadventure during a client consultation.
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