In Scenario # 1, the thought of doing research interests me so I put myself in this position to really
think about how I would go about this. Some of the challenges that I saw was working with a
physician that I was not too familiar with but if I knew the physician it would be more rewarding in
the end. I saw the Physician not truly interested or knowing what the end goal was if he/she was
removing patients from the study. The Physician, which I would be depending on for guidance, did
not seem to know the true outcome of the grant and with the inaccurate data the outcome would
not be reasonable. Once realizing that there were participants that were being removed from the
study, I would need to question why? When finding out the reasoning was due to a diagnosis or
poor prognosis - why were they even considered in the first place. I do not think the goals of the
study were truly thought out to begin with. I would think the best way would be to learn all about
the study, goals, and objectives, what exactly the grant was for and what the money would be
used for if awarded and what the participants had to do, what qualifications were needed to join.
Having all that information to begin with would help distinguish if this was something I wanted to
continue to help gather data for. Bowie defines Ethics as judgements of what is right and wrong
(2019). Something we all should learn from a young age. We all get that gut feeling about certain
situations and when reading this my gut is telling me to learn more about this before you get
yourself in trouble. Policies are the rules and regulations employees must follow to keep
businesses running smoothly (Milano,2021) Policies cover many different things including safety,
use of company assets, and guidelines for turning in paperwork. Would the Organizational policies
of this ABC organization have specific guidelines of such research studies? If so, then there would
be consequences if participants were removed for insufficient reasoning and if I was involved
(getting paid for collecting data) then the consequences would fall on me as well. The Department
of Health and Human Services has certain guidelines/policies for handling Human Subjects within
research (Protection of Human Subjects,2009)
If Ethics and Organizational policies do not align - then why are you working for the organization in
the first place. Everyone can have their own opinions about certain things but if you are not taking
the policies, mission statements and core values to heart with the organization that you are
working for then that can only lead to disaster in the long run. With the organization that I
currently work for the Core Values are something that I strive for each day with my co-workers and
patients. The Core Values help bring the policies to light and make it easy to go to work each day.
If the Physician in this situation does not see the value from working with the patients, no matter
what the diagnosis/prognosis, he/she will not help the future of this research even a possibility.
There are multiple challenges present starting with cyber security and a potential data breach.
Being part of the military, we have constant trainings on just cyber security and data breaches
alone that is completed every year. Cyber security is a real threat that comes with everything being
electronic these days. That is why policies and procedures are put in place to prevent or combat it
as soon as possible. With the scenario the laptop being left with a colleague should have not
happened. Knowing what is on the computer and that I am responsible for it, it should have been
taken with me to the bathroom. With the laptop being missing all information on that computer
could be considered compromised. e I would first follow protocol and alert tech support, assuming
that it is just lost is not a reason to not contact tech support. Even though I may be in trouble for
misplacing the laptop the consequences would be much worse if protocol was not followed.
e e e e Policies should be clear and outline the expectations or rules of ethical situations to create a
how to if these situations arise. Ethics help outline how the policies are defined, framed, and
analysed. So, this means "ethics can have a profound impact, both on the character of the policy
process and the choices made by decision makers"(Boston et al., 2010). They both help influence
each other to create a balanced rule that is implemented.
If an individual’s ethics are not in the same level of the organizations, then it can result in many
complications for the individual and the company. For instance, say the company you work for is
asking you to do something that you feel is wrong or know is wrong. This would make you feel
very uncomfortable and asking yourself questions like if you should do it or not, will you lose your
job if you do not? These can cause stress on the individual resulting in possibly leaving their job.
The same can be said an employee is breaking policy and ethics of the company it can cause
termination of the employee as well as a negative impact on the company due to the indiscretions
of one individual.
References
Boston, J., Bradstock, A., & Eng, D. (2010). Public Policy: Why ethics matters. In library.oapen.org.
ANU Press. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33647
Bowie (2019) Essentials of Health Information Management: Principles and Practices, 4th Edition
Milano, S (2021) The Role of the Organizations Policies, https://smallbusiness.chron.com/role-
organizations-policies-68191.html
Protection of Human Subjects 45 CFR part 46 (2009)
https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/sites/default/files/ohrp/policy/ohrpregulations.pdf
