Ethical codes provide guidelines for professionals in an effort to help regulate the profession and describe professional codes of conduct.  It is important to know, understand, and abide by your future profession's code of ethics. 

Look up (a simple google search is fine) your profession's code of conduct (i.e. for future health care executives, look up the American College of Healthcare Executives; for future nurses, look up the American Nurses' Association, etc.).  Read through your profession's code. 

Reply to the discussion, and answer the following questions:

1- What does the code say about your responsibilities to patients and the community?

2- What resonated with you about your professions' code?  Did anything surprise you?

3- Do you believe you are honoring the code now, as a hopeful professional in the field?