want to foster child in therapeutic placement

i have a friend who met a child in a hospital where she worked. it was a facility for acute medical care, not psych, but she became licensed as a foster parent with the intent of fostering/and hopefully adopting this child. the child was placed with her, and eventually adopted.

I dont see how this could be "conflict of interest"? For example, if you are a parent and your child needs to go to the hospital, ER, ect., do not take him because you work at the hospital and he is your child? Of course not. So someone needs to go above her head and have a talk with the administrator.

She has a previous relationship with the child, so it could be viewed as kinship rather than foster. It's no different than a student going into fostercare, and a teacher (who has a relationship with the child) becoming their placement. Happens all the time, and it's not a conflict of interest.

It is against her code of ethics, she would need to leave her current employment in order to do so.

I can speak directly to this. I too worked in a adolecent behavorial/psych facility and met a child whom I "just knew" was supposed to be with myself and my husband. Our facility had specifically in the handbook, that while I was employeed with them I was prohibited from pursuing adoption/foster care for any of the children in our care. It is viewed as a conflict of interest. they looked at is as this, if I was working there, and adopted this child, what if he continued to have the same issues as previous. My first thought would be to place him back in the facility. They consider that a conflict of interest. My response to this was to quit my job. (actually that was what I was going to do, but we ended up moving out of state so that took care of that.) We are currently in the process of adopting that same child. But I would have had to give up that job if we were still there.