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Autonomy Is concerned with self‐determination and is a person's ability to make choices on the basis of that person's own preferences, beliefs and values.Capacity An ability to understand, deliberate and communicate a choice in relation to a specific healthcare decision at a particular time.Competence The achievement and application of knowledge, intellectual capacities, practice skills, integrity, and professional and ethical values needed for safe, accountable, compassionate, and effective practice as a registered practitioner.Compliance Medication compliance refers to the degree or extent of conformity to the recommendations about day‐to‐day treatment by the healthcare provider with regards to timing, dosage and frequency.Conduct A person's moral practices, actions, beliefs and standards of behaviour.Evidence‐based practice The conscious consideration and the application of the best available evidence along with the healthcare provider's expertise and a person's values and preferences in making healthcare decisions.Guidance A principle or criterion that guides or directs action. Guideline development emphasises using clear evidence from the existing literature, as opposed to expert opinion alone, as the basis for advisor materials.Health and wellbeing A state of complete physical, social and mental wellbeing; not just the absence of disease or infirmity. It is a positive concept that emphasises personal resources as well as physical capabilities.Regulations A rule or law designed to control or govern conduct.Standards Authoritative statements developed, monitored and enforced by, for example, healthcare regulators to describe the responsibilities and conduct expected of registrants. The standards are based on the principles and that underpin professional practice.Therapeutic Relating to therapeutics, the branch of medicine concerned specifically with the treatment of disease. The therapeutic dose of a drug is the amount needed to treat a disease.