The Nine Most Common Types Of Ethical Dilemmas

The nine most common types of ethical inquiries and complaints that ASHA receives includes documentation lapses, employer demands, use and supervision of support personnel, clinical fellowship mentoring or student supervision, client abandonment, reimbursement for services, business competition, impaired practitioners, and affirmative disclosures. The first ethical inquiry, documentation lapses, includes the office being contacted regarding issues with paperwork. For example, information about the patient, the billing aspect, or the treatment process is elaborate and time consuming, so the clinician cannot complete the amount of paperwork in a timely manner. The second ethical inquiry, employer demands, involves a professional being tempted to act unethically due to an increasing amount of clients and

The fourth ethical inquiry involves clinical fellowship mentoring and student supervision, which results in the mentors lacking the supervision of students or failing to provide a model of ethical performance. The fifth ethical inquiry includes client abandonment, which involves the clinician leaving an employer without making arrangements for the client to receive adequate care. The sixth ethical inquiry, reimbursement for services, involves complaints to ASHA about misrepresentation of information, intent, and fraud. The seventh ethical inquiry involves business competition, in which the private practice should compete for the business of clients; however, the business should not be negative toward other private practice settings and always keep the welfare of the patients their top priority. The eighth ethical inquiry, impaired practitioners, includes addressing undiagnosed or untreated mental health issues including substance abuse. The final ethical inquiry is affirmative disclosures, which involves background checks for criminal activity and information regarding the history of the clinician when applying for certification, recertification, and