professional obligation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprofessionalandobligation
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professional
adjective
uk/prəˈfeʃ.ən.əl/us/prəˈfeʃ.ən.əl/
relating to work that needs special training ...
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obligation
noun
uk/ˌɒb.lɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌɑː.bləˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
the fact that you are obliged to ...
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(Definition ofprofessionalandobligationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofprofessional obligation
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Is this view ofprofessionalobligationmorally justified?
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This extra work arises out of theprofessionalobligationto test theories with the best available mechanisms.
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On the one hand, the judge has aprofessionalobligationto adjudicate the case and so must issue a decision.
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Respect for multiculturalism should not be used as a sentimental excuse to abandon one'sprofessionalobligationto serve the patient's best interests.
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This study focused on ethics policies regardingprofessionalobligationtoward patients, resource allocation, and care for the vulnerable in society.
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Whereprofessionalobligationwas once the norm that guided practice, market forces now hold increasing sway, turning patients into consumers and doctors into providers.
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However, also worrisome is the problem of negotiating the first-party interest in privacy (from which theprofessionalobligationof confidentiality arises) and strong thirdparty claims from family members.
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Teachers therefore have aprofessionalobligationto create and nurture structures that will support and develop positive parental involvement and participation in the life and work of schools.
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The availability of electronic pharmaceutical reference tools and their ability to improve care and limit errors may make their integration into everyday clinical practice an ethical andprofessionalobligation.
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The team members expressed the belief that theprofessionalobligationto protect patients supersedes a patient's desire for a therapy that the team views to be largely unsafe.
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We must train practitioners and make them see that it is aprofessionalobligation.
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It is time that such dentists recognised that they have aprofessionalobligationto offer health care, not just to seek private profit.
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Of course, doctors would be under a powerfulprofessionalobligationto resist such influences, but they could be placed in a difficult position of conflict with a commercial employer.
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In doing so, however, he has aprofessionalobligationalso to make it clear that there are other views and that people might well disagree with him.
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This restriction eats away at him as difficult situations develop and call out to his medical expertise and sense ofprofessionalobligation.
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Once a patient- physician relationship is established online, the professional obligations fundamental to the practice of medicine must be satisfied in this new medium.
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Professional obligations and competencies will provide the necessary restrictions and frameworks.
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However, professionals with full-time jobs liked the 2-week modules, which were more compatible with their professional obligations.
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In these circumstances, the conscientious physician places his professional obligations as a healer against his prima facie obligation to obey the law.
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Nurse prescribers have both legal and professional obligations to maintain the confidentiality of their patients, but neither are absolute.
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