Dr. Williams assistant Jerry does have the training but does not have the ability to make a call for a patient because if he prescribed the wrong dosage amount then there will be in trouble with the patient and also with HIPAA. It will not be in the best interest of Jerry to make this call for Dr. Williams without making a call to Dr. Williams first. In order for this to happen without breaking any laws, Jerry needs to have communication with Dr. Williams. To keep the integrity of office Jerry should ensure that the proper medication and make sure that it is the patient’s correct prescription if Dr. Williams gives the okay for jerry to provide the Valium for the patient. This might have to be a medication that this patient have to go without on his trip.…
Jerry McCall is a Licensed Practical Nurse in Dr William’s office. In addition to being an LPN, he is also trained as a medical assistant. Jerry is handling the phone calls for the receptionist while she is at lunch. One of Dr. William’s patients calls and asks for a refill on his prescription of valium. No one is in the office but Jerry. This paper will determine if Jerry’s medical training qualifies him to refill this drug order, it will identify major legal and ethical issues that may affect Jerry’s decision. It will identify problem solving methods that could be helpful in making ethical decisions.…
Jerry’s medical training does not qualify him to issue the refill order. The patient’s physician is the one who needs to determine whether or not the patient should have a prescription of Valium issued for his flight or not. Jerry’s medical training does not qualify him to issue any prescription to any patient regardless of what it is and who it is for. If a patient’s prescription request was for control of high blood pressure that the patient critically needed on a daily basis Jerry would still not have the professional credentials to allow him to issue the prescription orders. If faced with such a scenario Jerry should explain to the patient that he does not have the right to issue a prescription of any kind but that he would make it his first priority to tell the receptionist when he or she returned from his or her lunch break.…
Medical laws have been put into place to protect not only the patient, but also the physicians, nurses, and medical office staff. The laws were put into place to ensure that these professionals follow the correct procedures and steps that only qualified persons follow. The definition of practicing medicine has also been clearly explained. Those professionals who do not abide by these set laws are therefore subject to punishment by law (Baxter 2005).…
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Everyday health care workers around the world are faced with tough decisions. The law guides many decisions but some decisions require ethical considerations. Making good ethical decisions is not always as easy as it seems. Making ethical decisions is even harder when the primary intention is to be helpful, but it is beyond an employee’s qualifications.…
Companies like Google are straying away from the once popular Virtual Reality, in favor of what they are calling “Augmented Reality”, or AR. According to Merriam-Webster, AR is “an enhanced version of reality created by the use of technology to overlay digital information on an image of something being viewed through a device (as a smartphone camera); also: the technology used to create augmented reality.” (Merriam-Webster, n.d.) In order to “augment” our realities, these technologies are recording, storing, altering, and displaying information in real time. The information they use can be anything, but with products like Google Glass, wearable technology can now modify what and how we see objects, people, or data, in real time.…
The long debated question of the importance of men and women and their roles has raged on for years. Should men and women be treated equally, that truly is the question that seems to have more answers than resolution. Applying the question to Deontology and the work of Immanuel Kant, the answer would be all people regardless of gender should be treated equally. However, these theories do not take into account the actions of the male or female in question. The question still remains, should men and women be treated equally or should it be based on the situation, all accounts will be taken into further consideration.…
The senior citizens are a special market that depends on a reliable and honest service. Certainly, in considering the target market in contrast to the value proposition, the need for a service of its kind is quite imperative. Indeed, “Technology For All LLC”, must be able to develop a business model that assures the delivery of the promise services with the greatest seriousness, dignity, and respect towards its customers and partners.…
“Jerry McCall is Dr. Williams’s office assistant. He has received professional training as both a medical assistant and a LPN. He is handling all the phone calls while the receptionist is at lunch. A patient calls and says he must have a prescription refill for Valium, an antidepressant medication, called in right away to his pharmacy, since he is leaving for the airport in thirty minutes. He says that Dr. Williams is a personal friend and always gives him a small supply of Valium when he has to fly. No one except Jerry is in the office at this time” (Bonnie, 2009, P. 85)…
In the scenario Jerry McCall is Dr. Williams office assistant. Jerry has received training for a medical assistant and licensed practical Nurse. Although Jerry is handling the incoming calls while the receptionist is at lunch a patient of Dr. Williams had called in the office and stated that he needed two refill an antidepressant and Valium right away because he is leaving the airport within 30 minutes. The patient states that Dr. Williams always gives him a small supply of Valium when he goes to fly. Does Jerry have the correct medical training to refill this type of prescription? If it were another type of medication, such as high blood pressure to be ordered to take on daily basis would this make a difference for Jerry to call in the refill? I f Jerry calls in the prescription and the patient has a reaction while flying is Jerry protected from a lawsuit under the doctrine of respondeat superior?…
PASSION: Why am I here? As a child I was always attracted to the smaller, weakened animal I found in my yard, i.e. dying birds, kittens, bugs, etc. The animals we owned were never neutered which resulted in a numerous amount of puppies and kittens. I was intrigued by the cycle of life. Originally I wanted to become a veterinarian. The financial strain on my family made it apparent that it would not be possible. As fate would have it, there was a two year waiting list for nursing school, but I was readily accepted into a two year respiratory program. At the end of the respiratory program, I stayed for one more year to specialize in NICU.…
“The essence of technology lies in enframing. Its holding sway belongs within destining” (Heidegger 260). In this quote Heidegger explains the significance of the two terms Enframing and destining and their part of the danger. The definition of destining is; destining is the path we shoes that would lead us to a certain destiny. What does destining has to do with the danger? Well the destining humans chose is enframing. Heidegger uses the term enframing to describe/explain part of the danger. Enframing basically means the frame or the lens we use to look at the world. The danger is that all we see through that lens is standing-reserve, not only that, but also the fact that enframing is the only lens/frame we use to see the world through, as he mentioned in the following quote “Placed between these possibilities, men are endangered by destining. The destining of revealing is as such, in every one of its modes, and there for necessarily, danger” (Heidegger 260). Standing-reserve is another term that he uses to explain the danger. Standing-reserve basically means, when you see a mountain you would give it essence of energy, basically you would see it as its technological potential, and not as what it is. And that’s what he explains in the following quote “the essential unfolding of technology threatens revealing, threatens it with the possibility that revealing will be consumed in ordering and that everything will present itself only in the concealment of standing- reserve” (Heidegger 263)…
In today’s highly technological world everyone wants the latest and greatest gizmo on the market. Companies like Apple, want to make as much money as possible. With both Apple and society being held responsible for the outrageous working conditions in the factories in China workers can be treated more like people.…
This course attempts to address the social problems that confront Ghana today with emphasis placed on…