Posted: May 1st, 2025

Discussion post and case study Analysis

part 1 A) Read the attached case study and complete the questions belowusing one (1) of the presentation methods below:

essay summary (on word document) (Response to all of the initial discussion board questions below)

Create a thread and or reply in thread box (Response to all of the initial discussion board questions below)

Power Point presentation or Prezi (10–15 slides).(Response to all of the initial discussion board questions below)

Infographic: (Response to all of the initial discussion board questions below)

Educational/training packet or guide: (Response to all of the initial discussion board questions below)

• Brochure: (Response to all of the initial discussion board questions below)
• 5–7 minute recorded PSA (public service announcement) (Response to all of the initial discussion board questions below)
• Address the following questions:
• What are the facts of this case?
• What would have been the potential impact on the woman if the child had the following diseases: pertussis, polio, in?uenza, or Ebola?
• What are the management implications of this case? Should there be separate waiting rooms for people with an immunocompromised status
• What are the legal and ethical obligations of the parent of the unvaccinated child?

What are the legal and ethical obligations the clinic has to its patients and how do they apply to this case? Should the woman’s family seek legal remedies?

An RN who works at the clinic refuses to have an in?uenza vaccination. She does not have allergies, nor does she have religious objections. She just “doesn’t believe in them.” Create a script for a conversation with this employee, urging her to reconsider, and detailing the consequences of her continued refusal.

–Your experiences may be very helpful and interesting to all of us. However, be sure that you also back up your posts with factual information from the text (when it applies to the initial discussion board question (s) and responses to peers) or other creditable sources. A minimum of one reference is required to support your response to the discussion question and reply to a classmate. You may cite the course required textbook and or other sources in which you have used content from. Make sure your references are in APA format.

B)Reply to a classmate:Respond to one classmate post by including a respectful substantial response that includes supportive facts, details and address your classmate by name. Minimum of 150 words or more (excluding references). The responses to your classmate’s postings should actively stimulate and sustain further discussion by building on peers’  responses including:

1. — Classmate by name
   — building a focused argument around a specific issue or
   — asking a new related question or
   — making an oppositional statement supported by personal experience and related research.
2. __ Your experiences may be very helpful and interesting to all of us. However, be sure that you also back up your posts with factual information from the text (when it applies to the initial discussion board question (s) and responses to peers) or other creditable sources. A minimum of one reference to your classmates posting. You may cite the course required textbook and or other sources in which you have used content from. Make sure your references are in APA format.
3. Measles Case Study
   part 2 for the assignment In Clinical Ethics, three clinical ethicists (a Philosopher – Jonsen; a Physician – Siegler; and a
4. Lawyer – Winslade) developed a method to work through difficult cases. The process can be
   thought of as the “Ethics Workup,” similar to the “History and Physical” skills that all medical
   students use when learning how to “Workup” a patient’s primary complaints. While this method
   has deep philosophical roots, clinicians who use this method like the way it parallels thinking
   through tough medical cases.
5. Medical Indications – All clinical encounters include a diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment options, and
   include an assessment of goals of care
   Patient Preferences – The patient’s preferences and values are central in determining the best and most
   respectful course of treatment.
   Quality of Life – The objective of all clinical encounters is to improve, or at least address, quality of life
   for the patient, as experienced by the patient.
   Contextual Features – All clinical encounters occur in a wider social context beyond physician and
   patient, to include family, the law, culture, hospital policy, insurance companies and other financial
   issues.

Instructions: Carefully read each scenario describing an ethical dilemma in health care. Select
TWO scenarios for which you will write a thorough response to not exceed ONE complete
paragraph for each. One paragraph is 5 to 8 complete sentences. Responses will vary based on an individual’s cultural upbringing, ideology,
and cognitive development of ethical theories and principles. You must be able to support your
individual position by listing and applying at least one theory and one principle appropriately in summary.

Scenario 1
At your last office staff meeting, the rising cost of rent and overhead was discussed. One of your
partners mentioned that he had been approached by a large pharmacy chain with an offer of
space adjacent to their new pharmacy that is only one block from your current offices. The cost
per square foot is half of what you are currently paying and there was a suggestion that the rent
could be lowered if the volume of prescriptions from your office were substantial.
Although this offer is very tempting, you have reservations about the potential conflict of
interest. One of your partners is pushing to explore this option. You are wondering if you could
manage the conflict by refusing to engage in any reduction in rent based on prescription volume
but still take the space at the reduced lease costs.
Another partner feels that this arrangement will compromise her autonomy and feels that it will
look as if the office is associated with the pharmacy even if it is not. Everyone agrees that the
overhead costs need to be reduced. What is the right thing to do?

Scenario 2
You are the training director for a residency program. Recently, several residents have come to
you reporting that a physician frequently makes disparaging comments to residents and to
patients about the work of other physicians.
The physician’s latest comment was to a patient in which he said he would not allow a particular
physician to treat his pets. Other comments attributed to this physician involved telling the
residents that a surgeon is a butcher and a psychiatrist a mindless twit.
The residents have attempted to speak to him about this practice to which the physician
responded by saying he only speaks the truth, adding that patients and residents have a right to
know.
The residents report the comments appear to be unwarranted and they seem to be scaring the
patients. Is this physician behaving unethically? Should physicians question the work of their
colleagues? How should this be done?