Ethics Frameworks
The SHA Ethics Framework articulates our organization’s approach to identifying, managing, and addressing ethics-related issues and concerns associated with its activities. It represents an overall organizational strategy that connects policy, ethics services, guides and checklists to assist day-to-day decision-making processes of individuals and teams within the SHA.
The SHA Ethics Framework builds on SHA’s foundational work and outlines the many ways that our organization can create a strong ethics culture. To accomplish this goal, ethics reflection and action must be embedded into all aspects of health care across the organization from ‘bedside to boardroom’. Organizational Ethics is the integration of an organization’s mission, vision and values and ethical principles into decision-making processes.
The Ethics Framework encompasses the range of activities in which SHA engages including: organizational ethics (governance, leadership and management), clinical ethics, research ethics, population/public health ethics and education.
Based on a consultative approach, the SHA Ethics Framework considers best practice and is evidence informed by current literature, including 2018 Accreditation Canada Qmentum Standards for Leadership and Governance.