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Task: write a paragraph (per scenario) developing a plan for separation of personal and professional ethics, including the impact of the ethical dilemma on the medical assistant’s career.
Equipment: scenarios, pen, and paper
Standard Performance Objective: Develop a Plan for Separation of Personal and Professional Ethics
Examine the Impact of Personal Ethics and Morals may have on the Individual’s Practice
Demonstrate Awareness of Diversity in Providing Patient Care
Conditions under which the student is expected to perform the Task: Complete as homework assignment or as assigned by instructor with a minimum score of 70%.
Assignment: Using the scenarios provided write a short paragraph about each one. Decipher whether the issue is a conflict of personal or professional ethics. Provide possible ways the individual could reconcile personal and professional ethics to meet their obligations to act as a professional. Include what impact this would have on the medical assistant’s career.
1. The Medical Assistant has to assist with a therapeutic abortion and does not want to participate. Is this a personal or professional ethical conflict? Provide possible ways the Medical Assistant could reconcile this conflict. What impact would this have?
2. The Medical Assistant has to room a patient from a culture different from her own and does not want to base on a bad past experience with a patient and family from that culture. Is this a personal or professional ethical conflict? Provide possible ways the Medical Assistant could reconcile this conflict and demonstrate awareness of diversity in providing patient care. What impact would this have?
3. A Medical Assistant’s friend, who is a patient where she works, asks her to bring home some antibiotics for her because she cannot afford to pay for them at the pharmacy. Is this a personal or professional ethical conflict? Provide possible ways the Medical Assistant could reconcile this conflict. What impact would this have?
Answer each scenario separately .
Each you have to answer.
Is the MA acting professional or out of personal feelings each scenario needs to be at least 1 paragraph.