Ethics Case Study
Susan M. Brandt
HCS/335
February 12, 2012 Professor Beryl Keegan
University of Phoenix/Axia

Ethics Case Study When we look at health care professionals they are immersed in ever-changing environments. In this case study it is important to know and understand how people face different situations within their everyday lives. Health care has been the main focus for individuals that have anything wrong with them such as an illness or a disease. People that are going through something like this go through a lot and they all have different ways of dealing with the issues. Organizational ethics should also influence both role conflict and mindfulness (Valentine, Godkin, & Varca, July). There are two things that we must understand when it comes to understanding ethics. First, ethics refers to the well-founded standards of both doing right and wrong this tells us what individuals should do, when looking at terms of the right, obligations that benefits to society, fairness or specific virtues. Ethical standards include those that are virtue of honesty, compassion, and loyalty. Ethics are adequate standards of because they are supported by consistent and founded reasons. The second thing to take into consideration about ethics is that ethics refers to the study and development of one's ethical standards. Feelings, laws, and social norms can deviate from what is ethical. 1. Does Jerry’s medical training qualify him to issues this refill order? Why or why not? Jerry’s medical training does not qualify him to issue a refill order because the patient’s physician is the only person who can issue the prescription and in this case Jerry is not the patient’s physician. Supposing Jerry called in a prescription, and the patient had an adverse reaction, there would be a big lawsuit against Jerry. Not only