Question

Assume you are a nursing director for a nursing home. You’ve been working at your facility for a few short months when you learn the company that owns the home has been improperly overbilling Medicare for the care and services provided to your residents. You bring this to the attention of the company’s managers, but they do nothing. You then notify the appropriate authorities (becoming a whistle-blower) and, dismayed by the fraud and other problems, you quit.

1.Overcharging Medicare for care and services provided to patients is an example of ______ behavior

Multiple Choice

• a. rational

• b. unbiased

• c. unethical

• d.illegal

• e. organizational

2. Ethics is primarily concerned with

Multiple Choice

• a. right and wrong.

• b. legal and illegal

• c. moral and immoral

• d.religious and nonreligious

• e. public and nonpublic

3.In an ethical dilemma such as the one presented above

Multiple Choice

• a.there are two choices, neither of which resolves the situation in an ethically acceptable manner

• b. there are two choices, either of which resolves the situation in an ethically acceptable manner

• c. there are two choices, one of which resolves the situation in an ethically acceptable manner

• d. there is only one choice

• e. there are no choices

4. In the case above, this presents a(n) _____

Multiple Choice

• a. ethical dilemma

• b. desired outcome

• c. systematic approach

• d. goal

• e. Problem

Answer 1

1. Overcharging is unethical in nature. Option (c) is right

2.Ethics is primarily concerned with right and wrong. Option (a) is correct.

3.In an ethical dilemma there are two situations, neither of the two resolves it in ethically acceptable manner. (a) is right

4.In the case, the situation is of ethical dilemma, where the person is faced with widespread corruption in the nursing home, and has the choice of either complying with what is going on or leave the job, none of the options is capable of resolving the isue ethically. Option (a) is correct.