The Ethical Compass: Navigating Ethics and Accountability in Public Service

This session focuses on navigating the ethical challenges faced by public officials and first responders. Tracy Eldridge, ENP, will discuss ethics in this context, emphasizing core principles like integrity, fairness, respect, confidentiality, and impartiality. The class explores your instructor’s personal ethics journey, illustrating the distinction between errors of ignorance and intention through a real-life case study. Key areas of potential ethical violations are discussed, including the misuse of privileged information, falsification of documentation, and other conflicts of interest.