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Topic 2. PRC and Code of Professional Conduct

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) regulates various professions and occupations in the Philippines. It administers licensure exams, issues professional licenses, and oversees the conduct of professionals through 43 regulatory boards. All professionals must take an oath before practicing and are expected to follow principles of professional conduct and ethics. These include treating colleagues with respect, as well as adhering to codes of conduct that promote honesty, trustworthiness, and avoiding harm. Values, experiences, religion, and legal systems all influence the development of one's ethics.

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Topic 2. PRC and Code of Professional Conduct

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) regulates various professions and occupations in the Philippines. It administers licensure exams, issues professional licenses, and oversees the conduct of professionals through 43 regulatory boards. All professionals must take an oath before practicing and are expected to follow principles of professional conduct and ethics. These include treating colleagues with respect, as well as adhering to codes of conduct that promote honesty, trustworthiness, and avoiding harm. Values, experiences, religion, and legal systems all influence the development of one's ethics.

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THE PROFESSIONAL REGULATION

COMMISSION OATH AND


PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT AND
ETHICAL STANDARDS

Criminology 6
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the lesson, students are
expected to:
• Demonstrate full understanding on the
functions of the Professional Regulation
Commission as a professional regulatory body
• Explain the importance of Professional
Conduct and Ethical Standard
THE PROFESSIONAL REGULATION COMMISSION
(PRC)
What is the meaning of PRC?
■ PRC stands for Professional Regulation
Commission. (Filipino: Komisyon sa
Regulasyon ng mga Propesyon)
■ attached to the office of the President for
general direction and coordination with DOLE
as its parent agency.
■ It was created by PD 223 on June 22, 1973 and
was modernized by RA 8981, the "PRC
Modernization Act of 2000".
Mandate of the PRC
■ The PRC administers, implements and enforces the
regulatory laws and policies of the country with
respect to the regulation and licensing of the various
professions and occupations
■ determines the competence of professionals by
giving credible and valid licensure examinations and
standards.
■ administer oaths and issue certificate of registration,
issue professional license or suspend/revoke/reissue.
Oath of Professionals

■ All professionals who passed the PRC


licensure examinations and those applicants
admitted for registration without licensure
examination shall take the Oath of
Professional prior to the practice of their
professions.
Professional Regulatory Boards

■ Under the Commission are the 43


Professional Regulatory Boards which
exercise administrative, quasi-legislative,
and quasi-judicial powers over their
respective professions.
Functions:
a. Prepare the contents of licensure examinations. Determine,
prescribe, and revise the course requirements
b. Recommend measures necessary for advancement in their fields
c. Visit / inspect schools and establishments for feedback
d. Adopt and enforce a Code of ethics for the practice of their
respective professions
e. Administer oaths and issue Certificate of Registration
f. Investigate violations of set professional standards and adjudicate
administrative and other cases against erring registrants
g. Suspend, revoke, or reissue Certificate of Registration for causes
provided by law
What are the principles of professional conduct
by Professional Regulation Commission?

All professionals shall treat their colleagues


with respect and shall strive to be fair in their
dealings with one another. ... In the eyes of the
PRC, all professions are equal and, therefore,
every one shall treat one other professionals
with respect and fairness.
PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
AND ETHICAL STANDARDS
What are Professional ethics and Codes of
conduct?

■ Professional ethics are principles that


govern the behavior of a person or group
in a business environment. Like values,
professional ethics provide rules on how a
person should act towards other people
and institutions in such an environment.
■ The Code is an example of a codified
set of professional ethics for those who
choose to enter a particular profession.
NOTE:

■ Unlike values, professional ethics are


often codified as a set of rules, which a
particular group of people use.
■ This means that all those in a particular
group will use the same professional ethics,
even though their values may be unique to
each person.
VALUES and ETHICS

■ Values are the embodiment of what an


organization stands for, and should be the
basis for the behavior of its members.
■ Values provide the basis for judgments
about what is important for the
organization to succeed in its core
business.
Sources of Values
■ Family Friends
■ Religion School
■ Books Media and Internet
■ Culture Employers
■ Time-period in which you were raised etc.
■ Some of your most important values are formed
around the age of ten years.
Formation of Values
■ The consistency and coherence of our parents’
behavior is what strengthens our formation.
■ Values are often confused with habits, and many
parents hope that school will form the values that
were not instilled at home. This is not possible,
because school does not fulfill the basic needs of
life… that is the responsibility of those who raise
us.
Ethics Formation
■ An individual’s ethics are formulated through
the operation of forces in the individual’s
environment.
■ Family influences - The formation of ethics
begins when the individual as a child. Thus the
family environment has a significant influence
in determining what the child learns about
good and bad, right and wrong.
Ethics Formation
■ Peer influences - As the child develops contacts
outside the home through home, school, play and
work, peers exert considerable influence on the
individual’s ethical beliefs.
■ Experiences - As a person matures and develops as
a human being, he or she will be exposed to many
critical experiences that will be affect his or her
ethical standards
Ethics Formation
■ Values and morals - One’s ethical standards are also
greatly influenced by values and morals. People who place
high value on money and material possessions may not
have strong ethical standard regarding behaviors that
facilitate the accumulation of that wealth.
■ Situation Factors - People often change their ethics in
response to unknown situational factors. An employee, who
is threatened with loosing a job that has been held for years,
may commit unethical acts in order to save the job.
Ethics Formation
■ Religion - One of the oldest sources. Religion
believe that ethics is an expression of divine will that
reveals the nature of right and wrong in business and
others walks of life.
■ The Legal System - Laws are rules of conduct,
approves by legislatures, that guide human behavior
in any society. Obeying the law is presumed to be
ethical behavior.
Ethical principles

■ Ethical principles underpin all professional


codes of conduct. Ethical principles may differ
depending on the profession; for example,
professional ethics that relate to medical
practitioners will differ from those that relate to
lawyers or criminologists.
Some universal ethical principles that apply across all
professions, includes:
-honesty
-trustworthiness
-loyalty
-respect for others
-adherence to the law
-doing good and avoiding harm to others
-accountability.
CODES OF CONDUCT
Professional codes of conduct draw on these
professional ethical principles as the basis for
prescribing required standards of behavior for
members of a profession.
The intention of codes of conduct is to provide
guidelines for the minimum standard of appropriate
behavior in a professional context. Codes of
conduct sit alongside the general law of the land
and the personal values of members of the
profession.
NOTE:
■ The primary value of a professional code of conduct
is not as a checklist for disciplining non-conforming
members, although breaches of a code of conduct
usually do carry a professional disciplinary
consequence.
■ Rather, its primary value is to act as a prompt sheet
for the promotion of ethical decision-making by
members of that profession.
We are free to choose what we
are to do and, by so choosing,
to make ourselves the kind of
person we are.
END of Topic 2

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