Everyday Ethical Challenges

Ethical dilemmas are a struggle for all human service professionals such as discrimination, displaying empathy and recognizing a client’s unmet needs. Discrimination is the knowledge or carelessness of destroying another’s self-esteem by focusing on their disability. Overcoming discrimination for many individuals can be a battle that they may sometimes succumb to without proper assistance and failure of the worker to apply the ethical standards properly. In the National Organization of Human Services Handbook listed in the responsibility to the Community and Society section statement seventeen is found, “Human service professionals provide services without discrimination or preference based on age, ethnicity, culture, race, disability, gender, religion, sexual orientation or socioeconomic status.” (NOWS, Adopted 1996)

People from all walks of life face many ethical dilemmas. These dilemmas have consequences. Our worldview determines how we deal with these dilemmas, and guides us to the right decisions. In this essay, I will examine an ethical issues through my Christian worldview. I will also present other viewpoints, and compare them to mine.

I would write down the actual occurred time on the cash deposits; and explain to Alex that I felt uncomfortable about eating time. If situation plays out, I will try to talk to Dianne to explain her the situation and apologize for the mistake I made. I will assure her that next time I will be more competent on

This assignment will identify and evaluate the legal and ethical issues within the health and social care for elderly people with dementia and living in residential homes. It will address the difference between the legal and ethical issues and the impact it has on the person suffering from the disease, their family and the role that the professionals have in decision making for the individual’s wellbeing.

During Honest Works first chapter “Everyday ethics at work” our author’s discuss the idea of appearance discrimination (P: 25-29). The section deliberates the idea that employees are selected based on their physical attractiveness. The cosmetology industry makes its bread and butter on telling women they are not “pretty” enough; therefore, exasperating the problem. Should cosmetic industries be held at least partially responsible for the perpetuation of this form of discrimination?

I have decided to discuss ethics in Learning Disability Nursing. I selected this topic as I sought after to understand and grow my knowledge in this area. Additionally, I desired to distinguish how the values of ethics have altered towards patients with learning disabilities. Including how they compare to patients without learning disabilities.

If Emanuel accepts the offer he benefits greatly because he will be able to complete his assignments efficiently in his dorm room instead of using the college library but Microsoft will not profit and the roommate will have broken the law and potentially receive a penalty or fine for sharing a licensed product. But if Emanuel denies his roommates offer and

In the treatment of those individuals labeled as disabled, be it physically, mentally, or a combination thereof, we are faced with many challenging ethical questions. The first and foremost of these is, what is ultimately, “the right thing to do.” While we may or may not agree on the answer to this question, as well as those that follow, many advances have been made in our society to deal with disabled individuals in the most humane and ethical way possible.

This essay will address the ethical dilemmas faced by social workers and how they address these ethical dilemmas when working with service users and carers. It will be illustrated that codes of practice and codes of ethics are of paramount importance when dealing with these dilemmas as they are ones that guide social workers as to how they should try and solve these dilemmas.

Ethical dilemmas occur when there is a disagreement about a situation and all parties involved question how they should behave based on their individual ethical morals. (Newman & Pollnitz, 2005). The dilemma that I will be addressing in this essay involves Michael, recently employed male educator working in the nursery, and parents of a baby enrolled at the centre. The parents have raised concerns about male educators changing their child’s nappy as they have cultural practices that do not allow this practice to take place. This situation is classed as an ethical dilemma as there is a dispute between cultural beliefs and legal requirements within the workplace. There are four parties involved (parents, child, educator and director), all

An abortion is the termination of a human pregnancy, which is mostly done before 24 weeks of the pregnancy. There are two different ways to get an abortion, depending at the stage of the pregnancy. One of the ways of having an abortion, is to have it done surgically. The main method of this procedure, which is the vacuum aspiration or also known as the suction curettage, which is really common here in New Zealand. The other method is medical abortion, where at the early stages of the pregnancy, you would take pills rather than having surgery. After performing these the procedures, the foetus dies which people in the Catholic community see as murder, because they’re new life that has been brought into the world, which is one of the reasons why this is an ethical issue still to this day.

This paper is going to discuss the ethical considerations when working with a person that has disabilities. Being ethical is a must for any professional. If you want to be successful, you have to have good ethics. When being in a field like mental health, ethics are almost taken to another level. Being ethical not only helps the professional keep their job, but it helps the client through therapy as well. When counseling clients, counselors will come across a wide variety of clients and problems/difficulties that they may have. Some of these difficulties are actual disorders and disabilities that they are going to be living with for the rest of their lives so their therapy is crucial to help them function daily. There are several different

The profession of rehabilitation counseling seeks to provide assistance to individuals who suffer from developmental, emotional, mental, and physical disabilities. These professionals give the support needed for struggling individuals to continue leading fulfilling lives, and maintaining their independence. In order for a rehabilitation counselor to provide their services with the highest quality, they must complete their duties all the while pertaining to the appropriate code of ethics. At times, the ability to do so can be challenging, therefore resulting in the need for a rehabilitation counselor to reference a practitioner’s guide for assistance in ethical decision making. The utilization of a secondary source insures that the specialist can make the best possible decisions regarding the person in their care. In order to complete this case study, the provided practitioners guide to ethical decision making, the Code of Professional Ethics for Rehabilitation Counselors, and two peer reviewed journal articles, will be used as supplementary tools.

People face ethical dilemmas every day. This brings to light what one’s personal ethics are based on. According to the lecture, “In a CWV ethics are grounded in absolute and universal moral principles that have been given by God. In modern culture, moral standards are subjective and based upon personal preference” (Lecture 16). In this essay a case study will be given and solutions to the dilemma will be given from two different worldviews. The ethical dilemma I have chosen to write about is abortion. I will first give the Christian worldviews opinion for this dilemma then I will give a naturalists worldview opinion.

Zimbardo makes a comment that perfectly describes the methodology of his experiment; explaining how studies have been done of actual prison life by sociologists and criminologists, but that such studies contain major limitations to what parts of prison life can be observed. “They can see only what they are allowed to see on guided tours that rarely get beneath the surface of prison life. We’d like to better understand the deeper structure of the prisoner/guard relationship by re-creating the psychological environment of a prison, and then to be in a position to observe, record, and document the entire