Introduction As an occupational therapy (OT) student at the University of Scranton, I have had the privilege of seeking the upmost educational experience that has fostered my knowledge and skills to be able to contribute to the field of OT. However, throughout some of my fieldwork experiences I had the unfortunate experiences of witnessing ethical dilemmas at some of my affiliations. Specifically, I will address the ethical dilemma I observed at my first Level II fieldwork. This summer I spent 12 weeks at a skilled nursing facility located in Staten Island, New York. A major ethical dilemma that I had the ill-fated experience of witnessing was the acts of the certified physical therapists, occupational therapists, and occupational therapy assistants breaching the confidentiality of the clients of whom they worked …show more content…
In my experience there are many facts that I have identified regarding my ethical dilemma. First, I am a student at this facility who is overhearing staff members, including physical therapists, other occupational therapists including my supervisor, occupational therapy assistants, and even other fieldwork students engaging in gossip about client cases that they all do not know or work with. A major fact is that each person involved in the breaching of confidentiality of their clients are not abiding by their responsibility to ensure the privacy of all residents at the facility. This leads to the fact that each member involved is risking other parties to overhear them discussing the individual cases of the clients in an open room, including the elevator and cafeteria. These unethical acts are not being brought to the awareness of the rehabilitation director, who is not present during the time confidentiality of clients are being broken. By identifying the facts, it leads to the next step, which is to look at all the parties who will have an interest in this ethical
Values and Ethics The NASW (2010) and the Texas Department of State Health Services provide a foundation on how social workers interacts with clients, colleagues, practice setting, and their environment. This code of ethics and Code of Conduct provide to the social workers with ethical responsibilities and values in practice setting. By analyzing this ethical responsibilities and values in practice setting it is easy to identify the ethical responsibilities I am currently using. The Texas Department of State Health Services [TDSHS] has a Code of Conducts for social workers that provides a standards of behaviors need to follow as to stay professional and avoid damaging clients’ lives and self. For example, The NASW (2010) describes an ethical principle to practice setting in which 3.07 Administration is describes has advocating for adequate services for clients to
Occupational Therapy is a profession primarily centred around client-therapist interactions. The main objective of an occupational therapist (OT) is to empower and assist their clients in their return to everyday life and activities. Occupational therapists work with their clients for extended periods of time in order to ensure that they are able to participate in their normal daily routines with some degree of ease. OT's achieve this goal through building trust and rapport with their clients by representing themselves with the highest degree of professional identity and following the codes of conduct, to which ensures safety to all involved in the achievement of this goal. As occupational therapists work closely with a number of different
The clients’ files cannot be in an exposed to the public place. The clients’ files should be saved or put in a safe place where only people with authorization have access to. Because the therapist is not aware that Merry accessed the client’s file, the therapist should talk to the receptionist about leaving unattended the client’s files, and explain to the receptionist the ethical issues regarding confidentiality. If the therapist becomes aware that Merry looked at the client’s file, the therapist should explain to Merry the importance of confidentiality. The therapist should also let the client know that his/her information was accessed by
In the UK, policies for health, safety and security are not only give positive impact it also creates dilemma in relation to implement. Dilemma refers to a situation in which a difficult choice has to he made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones. There are different types of dilemma in safety. This includes * Resource implications
Profession Code of Ethics Comparison As a social work student, we are provided with the foundational education necessary to succeed in our profession. The National Association of Social Work (NASW) Code of Ethics is the most significant publication because it “is intended to serve as a guide to the everyday professional conduct of social workers” (NASW Code of Ethics, 2017). For this assignment, we are charged with exploring other professional codes of ethics to gain a better understanding of how they may be similar or differ from one another. Therefore, I choose to explore the American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of Ethics with the intention of conducting a comparison analysis of both documents.
I write to report a violation of principles number 2, section B, C, D, I, and J of the American Occupational Therapy Association code of ethics by Lucy Jackson. During my Fieldwork in fall semester (September-November) of last year, I noticed a pattern of behavior by my supervisor, Lucy Jackson at Mannor Care Center in Washington. The supervisor has been verbal abusive to Maryann Smith, a 68 years old woman with acute kidney injury and obesity. The verbal abuse started on my first day (09/7/2016) working with Lucy Jackson and ended when the patient was discharged on 9/27/2016. My supervisor always conducted treatment sessions in Maryann Smith’s room and since the other therapists aren’t around, she used the opportunity to verbally abuse Maryann
Ethical Issues in Social Work Practice The social work profession and its Code of Ethics dictate that social workers must act in the best interest of the client, even when those actions challenge the practitioner’s personal, cultural and religious values. In practice; however, ethical decision-making is more complex than in theory. As helping professionals, social workers are constantly faced with ethical decision-making or ethical dilemmas. As noted by Banks (2005), an ethical dilemma occurs “when a worker is faced with a choice between two equally unwelcome alternatives that may involve a conflict of moral principles, and it is not clear what choice will be the right one” (as cited in McAuliffe & Chenoweth, 2008, p. 43).
The altruistic behaviour of healthcare practitioners may include consistent work or the providence of informal medical advice beyond the boundaries of contracted hours along with the general willingness to move beyond the additional miles in professional activities. There is sufficient evidence that many healthcare practitioners perform their duties beyond their contracted hours but there is a declining trend evident related to the altruism in medicine. This can be expressed within the unwillingness of anaesthetist for accepting a final case on the list due to the time of operation to be run beyond the contracted session limit. The emergence and maintenance of altruism and cooperative social behaviour is found to be a major issue in the biological
Ethics Assignment Introduction Confidentiality is an ethical value that remains deeply rooted in the nursing profession and has always been the cornerstone of the nurse-patient relationship. Since the days as nursing students, we were constantly reminded of the significance in maintaining patient’s confidentiality. The Oxford dictionary defines confidentiality as intended to be kept secret while the Cambridge dictionary defines it as the state of being secret.
This, in turn, lead to the incidental disclosure of Joseph Stevens’ health information. To help prevent this mistake in the future, Sue and the compliance officer should work together to institute training that educates employees on incidental disclosure and how to minimize the occurrence. Another aspect of this mistake, is that Sue did nothing to dissuade the nurse from continuing the discussion in front of the patient and in a public space. Sue should have invited the nurse to come to her office
In the social work profession, it is a requirement to have a thorough understanding of ethics and some of the ethical dilemmas that one can face. On my journey as a social work student one of my assignments was specific to ethical dilemmas. The ethical dilemma that I chose to write in this paper about was multiple relationships and violating counselor client boundaries. The class that I wrote this in was HMS 102 which was values of human services. The main topic of the paper focused on the negative effects of sexual relationships.
Although Mr. B is a client of Dr. Y her legal obligations as a mandated reporter out weighs the ethical concerns of violating secrecy and the loss of a client as a repercussion of reporting elder neglect. According to ethical standards Dr. Y is allowed to disclose information
From time to time, social work practitioners face different challenges and one of such example is being confronted with ethical dilemmas. An ethical dilemma is defined as “when the social worker sees himself or herself as facing a choice between two equally unwelcoming alternatives, which may involve a conflict of moral values, and it is not clear which choice will be the right one” (Banks, 2012). Ethical dilemmas can occur in the context of either client or organisational-related conflict situations at work. The first ethical dilemma is when the patient refuses medical treatment and services because he or she would not accept that there is any problem.
This assignment is a reflection of ethical dilemmas in nursing practice as a registered nurse; this paper is based on the group assignment which was completed for NURS3004. This reflection will include an explanation of the role that I portrayed in the group, the preparation that I did for the role, what could have been done differently, how this group assignment has impacted me in terms of working in a team and finally explain how this assignment will assist me in my future clinical practice as a newly registered nurse. The role that I played in the group was a patient who has a mental health disorder and I didn’t want his mother to know about the illness, as a front it seemed as though we had a close relationship. When my mother leaves the room I asked the nurse to keep my illness confidential as she does not really understand it.
Since social workers work with a variety of populations, they experience some dilemmas during delivering their services to clients, hence the need for ethical conduct. According to Barker (2003) an ethical dilemma refers to a situation that occurs when two or more moral values seem to be equally legal but contradictory and the practitioner is required to make the best possible choice from among them. So it is important to have ethics that will help in taking ethical decisions. Barker (2003) defines ethics as a system of moral principles and perceptions about right versus wrong and the resulting philosophy of conduct that is practiced by a