| Secured settings or environment wherein health care | | | | mentally incompetent need an unconditional |
| is provided to the patients are classified as high, | | | | understanding which is very much different from |
| medium, and low levels. A highly secured or controlled | | | | what is being provided in a low-level security setting. |
| setting is referring to restricted environments where | | | | By nature, normal people do not tolerate those that |
| health care is given to the patients. These includes: | | | | are mentally-ill.’ For these reason, mentally |
| jails/prisons and correctional settings like forensic | | | | incompetent patients has to be relocated away from |
| psychiatric center, alcohol rehabilitation center, etc. In | | | | the normal patients. On the other hand, prisoners |
| many cases, patients with mental health problems | | | | have a moral obligation to the state for the crimes |
| and/or learning dysfunctions are the ones being | | | | and misconduct they have done in the past. |
| treated in secured settings. Medium-level security is | | | | Therefore, they have to be kept in a secured |
| designed for patients who are temporarily confined in | | | | setting. Professionalism is very much expected from |
| a hospital. The low level security settings are for the | | | | these health workers. They need to be patience and |
| normal patients that go to the hospital for check up | | | | sensitive when it comes to providing care for the |
| and diagnosis. Secure settings are specially formed | | | | mentally ill patients. Ethical principles of a secure |
| and established in order to take care of patients that | | | | setting are basically obtained from the existing basic |
| are detained in the prison cells and/or those with | | | | ethical theories. Some of the most important ethical |
| mental health problems and learning dysfunctions | | | | principles in health care ethics includes: respect for |
| requiring extra supervision, a special kind of attention, | | | | individual, autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, |
| care, treatment and rehabilitation. Patients who are | | | | justice, fidelity, veracity, and confidentiality. |