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APTA Core Values
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Steadfast adherence to high ethical principles or standards, being truthful, ensuring fairness, following through on commitments, and verbalizing to others the rationale for actions. | Integrity |
| provision of PT services occurs when PT and PTA consistently use current knowledge and skills while understanding personal limits, integrate the patient or client perspective, embrace advancement, and challenge mediocrity. | Excellence |
| commitment to meeting one’s obligations to provide effective physical therapist services to patients and clients, to serve the profession, and to positively influence the health of society. | Duty |
| concern, empathy, and consideration for the needs and values of others. | Caring |
| Desire to identify with or sense something of another’s experience | Compassion |
| working together with patients and clients, families, communities, and professionals in health and other fields to achieve shared goals | Collaboration |
| primary regard for or devotion to the interest of patients and clients, thus assuming the responsibility of placing the needs of patients and clients ahead of the physical therapist’s or physical therapist assistant’s self‐interest. | Altruism |
| active acceptance of the responsibility for the diverse roles, and actions of PT and PTA including self‐regulation and other behaviors that positively influence patient and client outcomes, the profession, and the health needs of society. | Accountability |
| promotion of a mutual trust between the profession and the larger public that necessitates responding to societal needs for health and wellness. | Social responsibility |
| ability to identify the existing moral problem and understand the moral consequences of the decisions made on the patient's part | Moral sensitivity |
| occurs when a moral judgment combines with a desire, and the content of the judgment is related to the content of the desire so as to rationalize the action | Moral motivation |
| choosing between two or more options; sometimes they can be two good options, but more often, they are two bad options. | Ethical dilemma |
| occurs when you know the ethically correct action to take but you are constrained from taking it. | Ethical distress |
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