Learning Activity #4 (Online)
Ethics and Social Theory in the Community
In Practice
3. Consider the following scenerios using the 12 questions below to approach them, write your analysis in your online Journal :
“You have just been hired to work as a public health nurse in a local region. One of your new clients slowly discloses accounts of domestic violence within her family, and you notice bruises on one of her children’s arms during a home visit. What are your responsibilities in this instance within the new regionalized health care system?”
“You have reasonable suspicions that one of your community health nurse colleagues is misrepresenting her care, by documenting home visits to continuing care clients without actually making the visits. However, you have no concrete evidence that this is occurring. What are your ethical responsibilities?
Twelve Questions to Address Ethical Dilemmas
Laura L. Nash posed 12 questions to help managers and professionals address ethical dilemmas.
1. Have you defined the problem accurately?
2. How would you define the problem if you stood on the other side of the fence?
3. How did this situation occur in the first place?
4. To whom and to what do you give your loyalty as a person and as a member of the corporation?
5. What is your intention in making this decision?
6. How does this intention compare with the probable results?
7. Whom could your decision or action injure?
8. Can you discuss the problem with the affected parties before you make your decision?
9. Are you confident that your position will be as valid over a long period of time as it seem now?
10. Could you disclose without qualm your decision or action to your boss, your CEO, the board of directors, your family, society as a whole?
11. What is the symbolic potential of your action if understood? misunderstood?
12. Under what conditions would you allow exceptions to your stand?
(Excerpted from: Nash, L. (1981). Ethics Without the Sermon. Harvard Business Review, 59. ).
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Today's Activities
1. Readings
I see and am silent/ I see and speak out: The ethical dilemma of whistleblowing. (pdf)
2. Journaling
3. Forum Discussion
4. Mind Hiatus!
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