Abstract
Health and social care profession is one of the most common professions in contemporary Britain. The health and social care industry is currently one of UK\'s largest employers. Over the years, there have been developments in the profession with more recognition to its status and more people getting into the work force. One major change to the profession is the creation of professional organisations which seems to protect and add more value to the profession. These professional organisations lay down ethical standards that professionals have to abide to in order to practice ethically. Some approaches to the ethical standards are normative (that is, they present standard of or good action), others are descriptive (that is, they report what people believe and how they act), and still others analyze the concepts and methods of ethics (Beauchamp and Childress 1994). The morally prescribed behaviour (i.e., the right thing to do) would be a person's ethical duty, or moral obligation, in that situation. A theory of obligation is also a normative ethical theory because it presents rules of and wrong conducts that apply to everyone.
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