Dilemmas can arise between the duty of care and an individual's rights because it is a clients right to refuse the service offered to them at any time they decide they do not want to receive the care, however it is my duty of care to ensure that, should this issue arise, is supported accordingly in this situation and that their choice is recorded correctly and reported to the correct people and/or authorities. For example, in my role as a mental health support worker it is part of my duty of care to help some clients with administration of their medication to help ensure that they maintain good mental health as well as their physical health. One client, when I went to administer her medication, she decided that she did not want to take her …show more content…
An example of is would be when a client with learning disabilities was being taken advantage of regarding money, the client had mentioned to me that her neighbour had asked her to buy her some cigarettes and had said the money would be repaid two weeks later. I pointed out to the client how much the cigarettes would cost and asked if she could afford to lose that amount of money if her neighbour failed to repay her for the cigarettes. The client then had time to reflect on what I had said and disclosed to me that she did not want to buy the cigarettes but she felt pressured to buy them and was fearful about what would happen if she didn’t, she also had not realised or been told how much it was going to cost her. To help resolve this situation I suggested that if she did not want to buy the cigarettes that she simply told her neighbour that her support worker would not take her to buy cigarettes as she was a non smoker. I then recorded the incident in the client's file and reported it to the relevant people, my manager and the client's care manager, who then referred it on to outside authorities. Although it is a clients right to spend their money however they see fit it is my duty of care to advise them the best way to budget and spend it