Question

Ethics and Compliance Discussion:

answer is required, discussing the issue.

1. Scenario: 13 year old patient comes to your clinic seeking birth control.   Describe how you would handle that situation. Under WA State law, minors may obtain or refuse birth control services at any age without the consent of a parent or guardian. RCW 9.02.100

2. Scenario: You have witnessed a co-worker removing drug samples from the storage cabinet for personal use. What would you do? List the steps for reporting this incident.

3. Scenario: Patient presents with a communicable disease, which is not reported by the designated staff member. The health care worker alerts the physician or clinical supervisor or office manager regarding the failure and explains the implications to them. What would you do?

4. Scenario: A medical assistant or surgical technologist does not wear gloves during a dressing change and hands are contaminated with body fluids. What are the implications for the patient and the medical assistant’s health and safety?

5. Scenario: Joey is a new Medical Assistant. He is hesitant to ask for assistance or admit that he is having a problem. Twice today, he was unable to get a good blood pressure reading on patients. One patient was very obese and the other kept trying to carry on a conversation with him.   He takes a guess on the diastolic pressure, but he know he is close. Has Joey done any harm to the patient? Has he acted unethically or illegally? If you were aware of this situation, what would you do?

Answer 1

1. I will try to convince him not to do that .As he is very young to make this decision . He has to wait for it .If he did so may be he has to regret it after which may be too late . So to make such decision a person should be mature enough  

2.First of all ,i will try to understand 3him that it is wrong . If he need any drug then he can contact the senior one for this .Then he will not convinience then i will inform the seniors about him . They will take action against him .

3. I will try to know what was the problem ?Whether there is no proper testing of the patient or there is problem with the testing instrument or whether the sample of the patient is displaced ? So that it doesn't happen with other patient . As it may be cause problem to the patient himself as no proper treatment is not given andit can be spread  the other faculty memeber and the patient .

4. If the assistant is not wearing gloves then it can contaminate the patient 's injury .It may be happen that assistant 's hand are not decontaminated before dressing or it may have infectious agents on his hands .On the other hand the assistant himself may be contaminated by that fuid . It may be happen that he get the infection from the fluid .

5. If his reading is close then it will not harm the patient . But in some cases it can be . Sometimes it may happen the difference get more wider ,them inappropriate drugs may be given to the patient .I think it is unethical and also illegal .If i know about this situation i will not allow him alone to do such checkups . I will tell him to assist some professional until he doesn't get the proper knowledge about it . I will also tell him not to hesitate to ask anything . If we don't ask then we will not learn things .