Ethics – “is a system of determing whether an action is moral (right or good) or immoral (wrong or bad); and that rightness or wrongness is determined by using a system called ethics.”
Greenberg (2001)
Nonmalfeasance – no harm.
Beneficence – obligation to people.
Autonomy – freedom to decide.
Justice – fairness or equal treatment.
Instructions for completing the assignment:
- Review the 9 situations before the board.
- Determine the health education ethical article/section involved.
- Determine whether a violation has occurred.
- Make recommendations for enforcement you feel a violation has occurred.
- For each scenario, state the problem, cite the violation (refer to Code of Ethics), place an “X” for the recommendation.
- The assignment must be typed.
Scenarios
- For the second time, a teacher has been accused by a student of inappropriate touching and sexual harassment.
What is the problem?
Cite violation: Article __; Section __
Recommendation for violation (select one):
_ None, mentor the person
Hearing or warning
Removal from duties
Suspension/Administrative leave
CHES title removed
_ Fire employee
- A health educator has used derogatory sexual and racial epitaphs in an educational program and in department meetings.
What is the problem?
Cite violation: Article __; Section __
Recommendation for violation (select one):
_ None, mentor the person
Hearing or warning
Removal from duties
Suspension/Administrative leave
CHES title removed
_ Fire employee
- A professor has published an article with a long paragraph of materials that was written by someone else, and citation of that person was not provided.
What is the problem?
Cite violation: Article __; Section __
Recommendation for violation (select one):
_ None, mentor the person
Hearing or warning
Removal from duties
Suspension/Administrative leave
CHES title removed
_ Fire employee
- A professor has a partner taking his/her college class, and students have filed a grievance because of this relationship.
What is the problem?
Cite violation: Article __; Section __
Recommendation for violation (select one):
_ None, mentor the person
Hearing or warning
Removal from duties
Suspension/Administrative leave
CHES title removed
_ Fire employee
- A health educator consistently comes to work smelling of alcohol. The person has previously been through a drug treatment program, but the problem persists.
What is the problem?
Cite violation: Article __; Section __
Recommendation for violation (select one):
_ None, mentor the person
Hearing or warning
Removal from duties
Suspension/Administrative leave
CHES title removed
_ Fire employee
- It has become known that a health educator assisted his friend with a suicide after many long hours of explanation of his friend/professional colleague’s terminal illness.
What is the problem?
Cite violation: Article __; Section __
Recommendation for violation (select one):
_ None, mentor the person
Hearing or warning
Removal from duties
Suspension/Administrative leave
CHES title removed
_ Fire employee
- A community health educator conducting a sexuality workshop is asked about abortion. The educator states that anyone who has or performs an abortion is going to hell, and then cites Bible passages reflecting his/her opinion.
What is the problem?
Cite violation: Article __; Section __
Recommendation for violation (select one):
_ None, mentor the person
Hearing or warning
Removal from duties
Suspension/Administrative leave
CHES title removed
_ Fire employee
- On an advertisement for a health education position, an individual always insists the statement “must demonstrate a healthy lifestyle” be included.
What is the problem?
Cite violation: Article __; Section __
Recommendation for violation (select one):
_ None, mentor the person
Hearing or warning
Removal from duties
Suspension/Administrative leave
CHES title removed
_ Fire employee
- At a health fair being conducted in a mall, a health educator displays an educational collage showing several naked bodies in provocative positions.
What is the problem?
Cite violation: Article __; Section __
Recommendation for violation (select one):
_ None, mentor the person
Hearing or warning
Removal from duties
Suspension/Administrative leave
CHES title removed
_ Fire employee
