When Living Feels Like Dying Case Study

In the case, When Living Feels Like Dying: Ethical Decision Making with a Depressed Dialysis Client, which is described in the roleplaying description. Reamer page 51 tells us that the purpose of the NASW code of ethics gives us an idea of the code’s main function as well as the principle for dealing with ethical matters or dilemmas while in the human service profession. These ethics have a wide array of ethical principles and allows us to reflect the profession’s core values by having ethical standards to guide us as human service professions. Having ethics helps as professionals to identify certain professional obligations, when conflicts or ethical dilemmas come up. Ethics and values make up standards that we as human service professionals can use to take a look at whether professionals have acted upon an ethical misconduct. …show more content…
B’s decisions to terminate her own hem dialysis service, I see a couple of ethical dilemmas and value issues. In Kenyon page 63, NOHSE ethics codes of the human service professional’s responsibility to clients, Statement 8 states that “The client’s right to self-determination is protected by human service professionals. They recognize the client’s right to receive or refuse services.” Statement 4 states that, If it is suspected that danger or harm may occur to the client or to others as a result of client’s behavior, the human service worker acts in an appropriate and professional manner to protect the safety of those individuals. This might involve seeking consultation, supervision, or breaking the confidentiality of the relationship. Reamer 2001, page 53 NASW code of ethics states that Clients have a right to interrupt or terminate