1. As a health care professional, you are interested in dating a person you have seen as a patient. Is it ethical for you to date one of your patients? Is it ethical for you to date a coworker? Explain your answers.
2. You are employed as an administrator of an ophthalmologist’s office. Your neighbor asks you to find out for him how much another patient was charged for an eye examination at the eye clinic that employs you. Your neighbor also asks you how much the patient was charged for his prescription eyeglasses (the eye clinic also sells lenses and frames). How should you answer your neighbor’s questions? Explain your answer.
3. You are employed as an administrator of a small health care clinic. One of the students who you went to FGCU with visits the clinic where you work, complaining of a rash on her body. She says she recently came in contact with a child who had the same symptoms, and also was seen as a patient at this clinic. She asks, ‘What did this child see the doctor for, and what was the diagnosis?’ She explains that she needs to know, so that she can be immunized if necessary. The receptionist knows that you and the patient are friends and pulls the child’s chart, and hands it to you. What should you do? Explain your answer.
4. The number of employers using social media to screen candidates is at an all-time high. Fifty-four (54%) of employers have decided to not hire a candidate based on their social media profile. Half of all employers check current employees’ social media profiles and over a third of companies surveyed have reprimanded or fired an employee for inappropriate content on their social media pages. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Snapchat, You Tube, etc., as if you were the prospective employer and answer these questions:
4a. Have you posted provocative or inappropriate photographs, videos or information?
4b. Have you posted photographs, videos or information about drinking or using drugs?
4c. Do you have discriminatory comments, photographs, videos or information related to race, gender, religion?
4d. Have you posted photographs, videos, information, or comments that are negative, ‘bad-mouth’ another person, previous company, fellow employee, faculty, student, etc.?
