Ethics

Each year you are required to complete at least one activity for each of the four CAPE domains, and record this as part of your CPD. 

A reflection on how you could apply this learning to your practice should be included with your CPD claim as outlined in the CPD program guide.

Ethics encompasses cultivates and maintains high principles and standards of practice and ethics in respect of psychiatry; to promote fair, honourable and proper practice. This may consider how to discourage and suppress malpractice or misconduct, and discussion to settle doubtful points of practice and questions of professional usage.

Examples: 

• Beneficence – the healthcare provider must commit to recommending all possible treatment options to patients while carefully considering their concerns and their wishes. 
• Nonmaleficence – ensuring that actions taken in patient care are justifiable by the expected patient benefits outweighing the pain or discomfort they may experience. 
• Autonomy – acknowledges the right of patients to informed consent leading to an agreement authorisation for care, treatment, or services. 
• Justice – patients have the right to equitable care which means patients should not be denied care for a relatively minor injury and arrived before another patient who needed intensive care. 

CPD activities for ethics

Learnit

Upon completion of these activities, the RANZCP will upload your CPD hours on your behalf.

RANZCP on-demand webinars

Log the time you spend viewing these on-demand webinars. 

Australasian Psychiatry

Log the time you spend viewing these articles.

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 

Log the time you spend reviewing and reflecting on these articles.

Related content

Browse RANZCP content for more resources:

• RANZCP Code of Ethics
• codes of conduct and ethics
• clinical guidelines, position statements and reports
• events 
• webinars