Tag: standards of practice

Oct 2, 2024 — NSCSW members are invited to participate in the process of updating the foundational documents that guide our profession in Nova Scotia.

Nov 16, 2023 — The NSCSW has retained the services of Barnes Management Group Consulting Services to adopt the new CASW Code of Ethics and inform revisions to several of the College’s other foundational documents. NSCSW is providing guidance, direction, and oversight to the project. We need our members to share your insight as well.

Dec 12, 2023 — Nova Scotia social workers are invited to review and discuss the first draft of proposed updates to NSCSW’s Code of Ethics & Standards of Practice.

Dec 6, 2023 — Nova Scotia social workers are invited to review and discuss the first draft of proposed updates to NSCSW’s Code of Ethics & Standards of Practice.

Aug 29, 2023 — Legislation has granted social workers in Nova Scotia the ability to write sick notes, as long as they are providing care within their regulated scope of practice.

1 October 2021 — Join Alec Stratford to discuss updates to sexual misconduct standards & policy proposed for social workers in Nova Scotia.

Social work is a profession that highlights the importance of close and purposeful relationships with clients. These relationships play a crucial role in people’s lives, and directly affect their quality of life and general well-being. Within that important relationship, social workers are required to maintain professional boundaries with clients and to ensure that the professional relationship serves the needs of their clients.

In social work practice, social workers place professional service before personal goals or advantage and strive for impartiality in their professional practice. They must refrain from imposing their personal values, views, preferences, stereotypes/assumptions on clients and seek to understand the lived experiences of those whom they serve. It is the responsibility of social workers to establish the tone of their professional relationship with clients, and others to whom they have a professional duty, and to maintain professional boundaries.

Confidentiality is a cornerstone of the professional relationship. Social workers are expected to demonstrate respect for the trust and confidence placed in them by clients, communities and other professionals by protecting the privacy and respecting the client’s right to control when or whether this information will be shared with third parties.

College Committee crafts guidelines to support NS social workers In June 2016, the federal government passed the legislation for medical assistance in dying (MAID). Canadian doctors and nurse practitioners can now provide medical assistance in dying (MAID) and social workers specifically in the healthcare field play a key role as they help clients grapple the… Read more »