decisions

Ethical decisions
Stephanie Cuellar
HCS/335
July 13, 2015
La Tonya Kelly

Ethical decisions
Medical coding in a physician office
An employee may be pressured into attaining the maximum costs by falsifying documents out of fear of losing their jobs. This medical coder does not want to feed into their supervisor’s greed but also needs their job. They will be left with no other choice but to add services to the patient’s bill that were not truly done in order to gain the most costs for their supervisor. This is not an ethical thing to do and this employee should make the attempt at finding different employment. But depending on the situation, the employee may not have the ability to locate another job so quickly and easily. They may need to find out who is above their supervisor in hopes of doing the right thing and still be allowed to keep their jobs. Another reason an employee would decide to fill the unethical request of their supervisor would be that they are a new employee. And by being a new employee they want to satisfy their employers. But this too will lead to failure and will hopefully make this employee realize the wrong doing of all involved.

Administration of patient medications in a hospital setting
Medication errors are no joke and may lead to death. However, a nurse is trained to know what the effects of each medications are. If a nurse is to by accident give the wrong medication or too much of one and chooses not to report it then it is of course unethical. In the nurse’s mind she may justify not giving the medication or giving too much of it because she is afraid of her consequences. She may know that giving too much of the medication she gave will not have any effect on that specific patient. She may have decided not to report it because she figured it would have been too much of a fuss over it. Also, by being a new graduate