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Healthcare Practitioner Ethics

• Ethical standards should be demonstrated and developed by healthcare practitioners.
• This development should occur both within themselves and among their colleagues.
• This is especially important when working in a group where members complement each other.

Devotion and Worship of Allah (SWT) as a Value

• Healthcare practitioners should have a deep and sincere devotion to Allah (SWT).
• They should perceive Allah's presence through spiritual commitment and worship.
• Allah (SWT) states that He created mankind to worship Him.
• Worship of Allah includes one's deeds, especially those of healthcare practitioners.
• The messenger of Allah (PBUH) said the reward of deeds depends upon intentions.
• Muslim healthcare workers should have devotion in all their activities for the sake of Allah.
• They should perceive Allah's presence in their activities.
• They will be judged for every small and big act they do.

Demonstration of the Best of Manners

• Truthfulness is the main trait of a faithful person.
• Allah (SWT) said to fear Allah and be with those who are true.
• Truthfulness includes truth of intention, deed, and performance, covering all human relations.
• Role models in knowledge and honesty should not be liars.
• Healthcare practitioners should not be liars, as people seek them due to pain and sickness.
• A liar will not be able to regain lost trust.

Honesty and Integrity

• Healthcare practitioners are entrusted with human lives and bodies.
• Allah described the faithful as true to their trusts and covenants.

Humbleness and Respect for Others

• Healthcare practitioners should be humble and never demean patients regardless of their position.
• Practitioners must respect all they deal with, including patients and their families.
• This raises them to a more respectful status.
• Humbled individuals will be raised in position.
• A person with arrogance, even the weight of a mustard seed, will not enter paradise.

Patience and Forbearance

• The medical profession is challenging and requires patience, forbearance, and tolerance.
• Patient healthcare workers tolerate patient behavior, excusing them due to pain and illness.
• Healthcare workers should not respond to patient irritability with anger or retaliation.
• All patients have the right to full care regardless of their language or behavior.

Passion and Love

• Healthcare practitioners should be loving, passionate, and lenient toward patients.
• They should refrain from insulting or discouraging patients.
• Successful practitioners consider the patient's psychological state.
• Practitioners should seek to remove illusions with diligence and accuracy, suited to the patient's understanding.

Moderation and Fairness

• Moderation is a core principle in Islam, calling for no surfeit or negligence.
• Allah (SWT) appointed the Muslim community as a middle nation to be witnesses against mankind.
• Healthcare practitioners should be fair and unbiased in treating patients.
• Trust in them should not be abused for personal gain or financial overcharge

Self-Accountability

• Healthcare workers must judge themselves before others do, avoiding widely publicized mistakes.
• Self-accountability includes even the smallest blunders.
• Complimenting some at the expense of others, giving irrational advantages, being late, or speaking irresponsibly should be avoided.

Avoidance of Trivialities and Pettiness

• Healthcare practitioners should not engage in religiously repugnant or socially reprehensible activities.
• Examples include backbiting, tale-bearing, talking too much, arguing, or using socially unacceptable language.
• Practitioners should also avoid demeaning behaviors, even if not religiously prohibited.
• These behaviors include chewing gum while working, showing an untidy appearance, or wearing strange clothes.

Good Treatment of Patient

• Healthcare workers should be welcoming to patients by smiling.
• Listening attentively to patient complaints and empathizing with suffering is necessary.
• Discretion is needed when asking questions about a patient's condition in clear, appropriate vocab.
• Embarrassing the patient should be avoided unless necessary.
• Respectful and humble interactions are necessary.

Achieving Patient's Interest and Guarding Their Rights

• Medical investigations, scripts, and surgical procedures need to be limited to the extent necessary for a condition.
• The use of diagnostic or therapeutic measures refraining that is not recognized or scientifically proven, unless scientific and restricting regulations.
• Patients, as well as their acting representatives, need to be informed about health conditions, causes, potential complications, and benefits of procedures.
• Appropriate alternatives should be clear and honesty during diagnoses and treatment.

Patient's Consent

• Healthcare practitioners should make sure they convey understandable information that will occur with the patient.
• Possible consequences and potential risks should be discussed.
• Patients should understand and appreciate the medical information so they can make conscious, aware, convicted decisions.
• Patient consent should be made voluntarily without pressure or coercion.

Woman's Consent

• A conscious woman has the right to consent to any medical interventions relating to her, including surgical operations.
• Exceptions exist for procedures that are related to reproduction, like family planning methods.
• For reproductive procedures, the husband's acceptance must also be obtained.
• In emergencies, the woman's consent is sufficient.

Incompetent Patient's Consent

• If a patient cannot give informed consent due to unconsciousness, age, or insanity, the patient's legal guardian is the person to give proxy consent.
• Exceptions exist for obtaining of consent during loss of life, where the healthcare practitioner can do the interventions.
• For non-interventional procedures consent can be given by a parent or accompanying person as long as they are competent.

Reassurance of Patient

• Looking out for and exploring a patients psychological needs is important.
• Provide people with sufficient clear information about a condition to reassure them.
• Have positive interactions with the patient's feelings and concerns, and to correct misconceptions about illness and treatment.

Praying For The Patient

• Helping factors enable patients to cope with illnesses when healthcare workers pray.
• Healthcare practitioners should demonstrate manners of (PBUH) in prayer for the patient to be cured.

Breaking Bad News

• If a healthcare worker tells the patient about their serious condition, it is not contradictory to reassurance.
• Patients knowing their health, illness, symptoms, and prognosis is right of passage.
• Informs doctor is their duty not the lower qualified junior doctors.
• During the process, healthcare workers should prepare the patient to receive the sudden undesirable news.
• They should also ensure that they are only relaying information that suits the knowledge of the patients.

Maintaining Patient Secrets - Confidentiality

• Disclosures are to protect the patient's contacts from being infected.
• Disclosures are to have to achieve a domestic interest for the disease to be warded out.
• Cases for disclosure include deaths that have came as a result of a criminal activity that prevents crime,
• Reporting of communication based on infectious diseases.
• If disclosure is requested by a judiciary.

Photographing Patients and Recording Their Voices

• To inform the patient with the significance of this imaging, its importance and purpose before imaging or recording.
• To ensure the the imaging is known on different platforms, as a result consent or the patient approval is needed.

Dealing With Patients Who Refuse a Medical Procedure

• Make the person aware of the medical consequences when it is needed to refuse the medical procedure.
• Listen to the patients point of view and respect there wishes.
• Explain, while being honest regarding there medical stance and situation.

Conscientious objection to refrain from reaction a patient

• In a non-emergency situation, health care workers can, or should, refrain from treating a patient because the practitioner would jeopardize the care of the patient, but as long as there is another practitioner working on the medical issue.

Healthcare Practitioner's Duties Toward Community

• A healthcare practitioner has a noble task for the community and is positioned in social settings.
• The community expects the healthcare practitioner to use positions to show the highest level of moral standards and committment.

Factors That Reflect

• Becoming a role model within the community through faith and maintaining positive human affairs.
• Being an effective member of the healthcare community and its local and public issues.
• Healthcare members of the community should not have to reside in ivory towers.

Recognize Factors

• Understanding and focusing on the community and environment impacts individuals in the community dealing with social and environmental diseases.
• Practicing profession with the best level of high trust, knowledge worthiness, and keeping updated on the latest technologies.
• Being able to provide empowerment with the people in the community on empowering justice and health resource.