 Hello everybody Andrea Mayesca here with dental ill tutoring. I wanted to talk to you guys about some core values today So these are specifically core values. We're not talking about the whole ethics unit We're not even talking about ethical dilemmas But just kind of core values because I find people get confused when talking about core values And they don't really know what they are and they don't really know what they mean So it's not the same thing as the different type of ethics properties that you want to work through if you Have an ethical dilemma core values is kind of something all on its own So let me just pull up my slide here, and I'll show you guys what I mean. So core values So these are the different core values now depending where you live They may be a little bit different, but at least I'll talk about the ones here specific to Ontario So you guys have an idea what they are so you can kind of work through them and understand So basically as dental professionals, we have to always be thinking ethically Legally and core values kind of plays into that point when we have a difficult patient when we have patients who don't want x-rays When we have just patients in general, you know things in general with the dental office Things come into play that we have to think to ourselves. Okay, how should I be acting? What should I be thinking things like that? So confidentiality that's a big one So we must maintain confidentiality with all of our patients at all times I find this is pretty simple pretty basic, but basically we can't be talking about patients to other patients We can't be talking about patients to our husbands to our spouses to our families We shouldn't even be talking about our patients to other Members in the dental office unless they're involved with their treatment So let's say you have three dental assistants in your office and one dental assistant specifically is dealing with that patient when He or she goes to see the doctor for a filling you shouldn't be talking to the other two Dental assistants in the office about that patient. So it's not right to say. Oh, well, did you know he has hep C? You know, you just shouldn't be talking like that. Keep things confidential something to mention to with them confidentiality is You know how you you want to put alert stickers on your patients charts if they have high blood pressure if they have Hepatitis if they have AIDS if they have diabetes pretty much anything that warrants a medical alert Confidentiality means you do not put it at the front of the chart You can put it inside but never at the front or the back because if that chart is sitting there on the front desk That's breaching confidentiality to have it say in this big medical alerts sticker AIDS or diabetes or hates the drill or hates to have his teeth floss, you know something like that Never put anything at the front of the chart. I see it way too often. So I just want to mention that Societal trust so we need to remember that the patients and general public trust us and this trust is based on our actions and behaviors in my opinion, it is something that we earn So we have a general trust from the public that we know what we're doing what we're talking about. We are Professionals so us talking in the hall of the dental office to the other dental assistant or dental receptionist How we got wasted on the weekend is hindering their trust of dental professionals Even I I will take it as far as when we're out in public not working If you have road rage and you stick up your middle finger to the car beside you because they cut you off And then you happen to see that person is your patient that afternoon, you know What are the odds? Probably wouldn't happen, but it could happen, right? So societal trust means that we should always try to be maintaining a professional attitude Us giving somebody the middle finger. Yes, we did not know that they were our patient that afternoon But that doesn't look so good, right? That looks horrible and that patient would have every right To say I don't want to see her because she stuck up her middle finger at me, you know So that's just kind of what that is based on Non-melificence so we treat our patients in a way that minimizes harm So not doing harm to our patients as forgetting to put on the lead apron does harm to our patients I say ignoring the fact that they have severe perio and not telling them is Causing harm to our patients. I'm not probing every year for dental hygienists is causing harm as a dental assistant if we Hmm, let me think how could you cause harm to your patient? If you were just careless in some way shape or form if you didn't give them a rubber dam If you didn't place the rubber dam on while you were doing the earth while the dentist was doing the root canal And they got bleach in their mouth. That's causing harm, you know things like that. We should never be causing harm to our patients Beneficence so we owe it to our patients to engage in health promotion and disease prevention Activities as well as to keep abreast of new changes in health care and the dental profession So this is talking about continuing education So we need to show that we know what we're talking about us taking a course once every five years is not Part of our core values. We need to be constantly learning practicing Teaching even we need to do the best that we can for our patients a lot of people get Non-malificence and beneficence mixed up. There is a difference. So non-malificence means not causing harm and beneficence basically means to be continuing on with education and then the next one just Justice and fairness so everyone should have access to the same quality and affordable oral health care just because patients are enrolled in Certain programs. It doesn't mean that they should should be treated differently if a patient doesn't have insurance You know that doesn't mean you treat them any differently Hopefully if let's say parents of a five-year-old don't have insurance They know to sign up for programs to help them with that so they don't have to pay for treatment So everybody should be fair everybody should treat people accordingly It doesn't matter how much money they have or don't have as dental professionals We always need to be fair and then veracity. So we must always be truthful This is a big one and they love to talk about this We need to be truthful if the patient has gingivitis tell them they have gingivitis if we made a mistake on something make You know be honest and tell them we made a mistake if Let's see They need those if they need that Periapical x-ray because you suspect or the dentist suspects that they have an infection be truthful and safe You know what we can't treat you properly. We cannot diagnose without this x-ray. So always be truthful So this was just kind of an overall of the core values You guys can look through the code of ethics more specifically The dental assisting code of ethics you don't go into it as gray or detail because you don't have as much insurance as The dental hygienist does if we do something wrong But you still have to know the difference between the core values and the different types So I hope this helped you guys Please make sure to comment below if you have any questions and I will see you guys in the next time