Title: Explain ethics related to home health care.
Course: Home Health Aide (14053) > Section: Exploring Employment

Explanation should include

- the similarities and differences among the meanings of the terms ethics, professional ethics, personal ethics, ethical behavior, and work ethic
- ethical dilemmas, ethical considerations, and ethical decision making
- individual value systems
- the role of a home health aide in controversial situations
- the importance of ethical behavior in home health care.

Process/Skill Questions:

- Why are issues such as receiving gifts ethical dilemmas for a home health aide?
- What is the importance of an individual’s value system as it relates to autonomy, accountability, standards of conduct, and the withholding/withdrawal of food and fluids?
- How might ethical considerations be a factor in issues such as right-to-die and donor-recipient allocations?
- What are some ethical issues that could affect client care?
- How do ethical issues differ from legal issues?
- How can confidentiality be an ethical as well as a legal issue?