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?…
Peel District School Board (PDSB) is one of Ontario’s many school districts. It serves the educational needs of three municipalities, namely, Brampton, Mississauga and Caledon by providing Kindergarten to Grade 12 education to all students of school going age who live in the school district. According to a 2011 census data, the Region of Peel is home to about 1.3 million people (Region of Peel, n.d.). In terms of its populations served, PDSB serves a widely diverse population that keeps growing exponentially. For example, according to the above referenced census data, between 2006 and 2011, Brampton, Mississauga and Caledon grew at the rate of 20.8%, 55% and 4.2% respectively. According to the census ' comparative analysis, Brampton is the second most densely populated city in Ontario. Further to the above, the 2011 census data state that, “The top home languages in Peel are Punjabi in Brampton, Urdu in Mississauga and Italian in Caledon” while “Of the 124,100 people who speak only Punjabi at home in Ontario, 86,185 (69%) live in Peel.” This is a snapshot of the demographics served by the PDSB.…
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.…
The No Child Left Behind act has its pros and cons when it comes to the five core principles including strong accountability, expanded flexibility and control, methods based on scientific research, expanded options for parents, and highly qualified teachers. The pros and cons of the say this because when teaching diverse learners they are dealing with a variety of different learning styles. In turn every student will not respond to the No Child Left Behind principles or methods in the same manner, meaning that it may work for some while it may not work for others. The idea of strong accountability it is relevant to the teachers and the students. The teachers they are held accountable due to the set standards and curriculums that they have to teach and follow in order to meet the goals of the NCLB. Along with this they have to prepare the student for the standardized tests that are put in place to measure the students and the teacher’s progress. This is tricky because if the student fails teachers are held accountable while the students are also held responsible for themselves if they fail. This is when highly qualified teachers cone into effect due to the evaluations of their teaching through how the students perform on the standardized tests. In some ways this may be a good thing, but it can also be really bad too. If the students do good then the teachers look highly qualified but if the students don’t do a good job then the teachers look unqualified or as if they are not meeting the standards when that really may not be the case at all. Although teachers have certain curriculums to follow, they do have expanded flexibility and control regarding tailoring their lesson plans which is a good thing that gives them a little freedom. On the other hand it has its cons too because that in my opinion is about the only leeway that they have to make things their own. This will affect the students because teachers are stuck…
The ‘Social Model’ states that all children have individual needs but also has strengths, skills and preferences. It provides inclusive environments as a starting point for all children. It looks at the environment as a whole and attitudes towards disability and considers that it might be the ‘problem’ that needs fixing rather than the child. By using this approach, the children who would have been educated separately in a different school would now be educated in mainstream schools. The ‘Medical Model’ sees disability as a burden. They are more concerned whether the child can adapt the environment instead of seeing…
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.…
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).…
The principles should take account of the needs of all pupils, including any with special educational needs. It should be reviewed regularly and should cover the ethos of the school, its values and the boundaries of acceptable behaviour, the school's moral code, positive and constructive rules of conduct, the rewards and punishments, which must be fairly and consistently applied.…
When working with children, it's important to have guidelines to protect them. It's a good way for educators to remind themselves that they do their jobs to help children. It's also helpful in making certain that we never ever hurt children, either on purpose or on accident. Both the NEA (National Education Association) and NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children) have come up with their own guidelines of ethical conduct. They have similarities and differences, but they are both crucial to know when going into education.…
Over the last several weeks, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli of New York has issued audits detailing millions of dollars in fraud by private companies that provide special education services to preschool children with learning, developmental or other disabilities.…
Using proper ethics in occupational therapy means placing the patients’ needs above the therapists and being fair to the patient. As an occupational therapist, one must make sure the patients’ needs are always met. Keeping patients’ personal information and progress confidential. The patient always has a right to privacy.…
For my reflective assignment I will be writing about a period in my recent experience as a substitute teacher in the SCCPSS system, this was before I entered graduate school this past school year I worked as a, essentially every day from pre-k to high school grades and during this time I gain great experiences and learned how to communicate to learners from all walks of life. During my time as a sub I was able to work as paraprofessional in a special education classroom, there was a student who couldn’t regulate his emotional conduct and he would act out, he begin tossing things, and if he would run out of the room an fight with his brother. This type of behavior would just appear erratically through the weeks and I…
In my opinion the movement for CEC Standards was a good one, I feel they are just as important as the regular academia standards. I feel that all the standards are equally important, however standard #9 had an impact on me when reading it. I feel that Professional and Ethical Practice is an important one to have. Ethics is a big part of everyday life and children with exceptional needs should get the ethical standards we all receive. “Special educators are aware of how their own and others attitudes, behaviors, and ways of communicating can influence their practice.” Being a special educator is a practice and we as special educators have to be aware of the impact we and others can have on our children. I also felt standard two was influential to me, the Development and Characteristics of Learners. “Special educators know and demonstrate respect for their students as unique human beings,. Special educators understand the similarities and differences in human development and the characteristics between and among individuals with and without exceptional learning needs (ELN). Moreover, special educators understand how exceptional conditions can interact with the domains of human development and they use this knowledge to respond to the varying abilities and behaviors of individual’s with ELN.” This to me is stating that these individuals are just as human as the rest of us, they just need to be treated in…
However with shortage of special education teachers, and an attempt to bridge the gap with a general education teacher could lead to lack of effective instruction practices, peer support, and/or assistive technology for students with disabilities. The inability of a general education teacher to meet the goals of the individual education programs (IEP) of a special education student due to the challenge of balancing it with the general education curriculum for all other students, would create a legal issue due to the violation of the special education student’s rights under the IDEIA. In addition, this also creates an ethical issue for the general education teacher because she is faced with the dilemma of working to meet the goals of the IEP in an inclusion setting under tight time constraints. In the end the special education student may not get the full lenght of services provided in the IEP and the non-special education student may not get full instructions provided in the curriculum because of the problems associated with time management and balancing of the needs of the entire classroom. Moreover, there is a moral component to bridging the gap with general education teachers because special education students are individuals from diverse backgrounds, who require ongoing…
Finally, reliance is an important ethical issue because it is crucial to the future of special education students. Reliance has been pegged as an ethical issue due to the fact that people claim special education programs make students “overly reliant” on a crutch that they may or may not receive in college, or in their jobs. They crutch being the different treatment than other students, that is supposed to help them become successful, and able to function in the real world once these students become adults. Reliance, like all the other ethical issues, can consist of many debates over clashing opinions and…