MBS Direct: Law & Ethics for Hea X + /epubcfi/6/42[%3Bvnd.vst.idref%3Dch 10]!/4/22[data-uuid-143bd94ecc094be6a687015733865f48... [ Q Case Studies Use your critical thinking skills to answer the questions that follow each case study. LO 10.3 While many people think of the health care industry as "clean," medical providers continue to accidentally contract diseases from incidents in the workplace. For example, Sheila, an emergency room nurse with 15 years experience, had just finished drawing blood from a patient when she disposed of the needle in the sharps container and felt a prick through her glove from a used needle that was hung up in the drop-down container lid. Several months later, Sheila learned that she had not only been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) but also the hepatitis C virus. Other diseases health care practitioners often contract through needlesticks include methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. hepatitis B, malaria, syphilis, herpes, and many less common diseases. 42. In your opinion, were there precautions that Sheila could have taken in the emergency room where she worked to prevent her accidental infection? Explain your answer. 43. What other common hazards do health care practitioners face in a medical office or other medical setting? How would you deal with each? LO 10.4 You have recently graduated from a 2-year medical assistant program. have earned certification, and want to apply for the following advertised positions: (1) a CMA in a pediatric clinic and (2) a CMA /recentionist for a physician in private practice Write letters of anplication for each nncition and 257 LMBS Direct: Law & Ethics for Hea x + N epubcfi/6/421%3Bund.vst.idref%3Dch10]!/4/22[data-uuid-143bd94ecc094be6a687015733865f48... Q AA R Ethics ISSUE 2: Patients are often accompanied by third parties who play an important part in the health care practitioner-patient relationship. The health care practitioner interacts and communicates with these individuals and often is in a position to offer them information, advice, and emotional support. The more deeply involved the individual is in the clinical encounter and in medical decision making, the more troubling sexual or romantic contact with the health care practitioner would be. Key third parties include but are not limited to spouses or partners, parents, guardians, and proxies. Source: AMA Code of Medical Ethics, E-8. 14. 257 Discussion Questions 40. A young, female medical assistant has been present when a young, single father brings his infant in for checkups. The child is seriously ill, and the father begins consulting the medical assistant about his emotional anguish. The medical assistant is also single and senses an attraction. When the young man asks her out. should she accept? Explain your answer. 41. Do you believe ethical standards governing such relationships are stricter for health care practitioners than for other professions, such as law professors and students? In your view. is this as it should be? Explain your answer. Case StudiesS Direct: Law & Ethics for Hea X + fi/6/42[%3Bund.vst.idref%3Dch10]!/4/22[data-uuid-143bd94ecc094be6a687015733865f48... [ * # 0 N Pau Q AA R Ethics Issues Workplace Legalities Use your critical thinking skills to answer the questions that follow each ethics issue. Ethics ISSUE 1: All ethical guidelines for health care practitioners remind them to be aware that even though sexually suggestive behavior may not have crossed the line legally, any form of sexual harassment or exploitation between medical supervisors and trainees, employers and employees, coworkers, or medical practitioners and patients is unethical. Discussion Questions 37. You are a surgical technologist in a large hospital. Whenever you work with a certain surgeon, she tells off-color jokes to you and your coworkers, and makes suggestive comments to workers of the opposite sex. One coworker tells you that he might quit his job because he is married and the surgeon's behavior makes him so uncomfortable that he dreads coming to work. Is the surgeon's behavior illegal or simply in bad taste? Explain your answer. 38. Do you or your coworkers in the previous situation have grounds for a sexual harassment complaint? Explain your answer. Bo. If you have determined that you do have a complaint, how would you proceed? Ethics ISSUE 2: Why third parties who play an important part in the health care 256 L 4:38 PM 5/11/2022