Moving Towards Virtuous Professional Practice: A Summary of a Content Analysis of Professional Regulatory Documents and Codes of Conduct

Abstract

This paper outlines a summary of the findings of a content analysis from a collection of UK-based professional mission statements, codes of conduct, and regulatory documents within the professions of medicine, law, teaching, business and nursing. This analysis aimed to identify general similarities and more distinct nuances across professions in the extent they reflected ethical dimensions of their members’ practice.