Title: Discussion 3
Course: HCP 0796 Patient Care Technician > Section: Module 3

Your Work Ethic and Performance
Read Chapter 2 in your textbook and answer the following questions. Remember that this is not something that you will look up in your textbook but answer honestly as to how you would react in these situations. 1. You witness a coworker, who happens to be your best friend as well, taking money from the petty cash box in your department. When you ask her what she is doing, she tells you that needs to borrow the money to get her car fixed and she'll pay it back when she gets her next pay check. Your facility distributed paychecks yesterday which means it will be another 2 weeks before you both get paid again. You tell her that you can loan her the money instead, but she declines because you are a single parent of three young children and she knows that you struggle to make ends meet. She then casually reminds you that she did you a big favor when you first started your job at the facility and asks that you not report her to the supervisor. What should you do and what are the consequences of reporting her or not reporting her?

2. You need to have your time card signed by the end of the day. You know that your shift supervisor would sign it, but she is tied up in a meeting and your shift ends in ten minutes. The meeting is with the facility Board of Directors and was supposed to be over an hour ago but there are a lot of changes happening in the facility that need to be discussed. If you do not get your time card signed you will not get paid on time and you are already late on your electricity bill for this month. Your shift ends at 2 pm but your supervisor is scheduled to be at work until 5 pm and you really do not want to wait that long. You have to be at the school to pick up your kids by 3 pm and your son has a T-ball game at 4 pm. How are you going to handle this situation and why?

3. You have one more paper to turn in for a course that you are currently taking that's required for your job. You keep the weekend open to write it, but you receive a call that your best friend has been hospitalized in critical condition in Sarasota due to an automobile accident. You know that there will not be enough time to write the paper and go see your best friend in Sarasota as this is a 5 hour minimal drive one way. You happen to have a copy of the paper that someone else wrote for the same course two years ago that earned a grade of "A" and it was a different course instructor. The new instructor would never know that you didn't write the paper yourself especially if you changed some of the wording just a tad. You have been best friends with this girl since the first day of kindergarten. The course ends on Monday and you know that since it is not immediate family it would be ineligible for an incomplete "I" grade. What are you going to do and why? What are your options in this scenario?

4. Your supervisor asked you to attend a meeting in her place but you forgot that you were supposed to go until after the meeting had taken place. You know she'll be extremely upset with you because this was a mandatory meeting and the information presented was needed for all supervisor related to the new changes in the facility. The only way that a supervisor could be excused from the meeting was to send a proxy, which would have been you. You are scheduled for your probationary period ending evaluation on the day that you are scheduled to provide your supervisor with the meeting details. Someone you know did attend the meeting and has agreed to give you a copy of their handwritten notes that they took. You are not sure if the meeting coordinator took attendance and are unable to get a hold of anyone that attended the meeting before your appointment with your supervisor occurs. When you hand in the meeting notes in your handwriting to your supervisor, she asks, "so what did you think of the meeting?" She then begins reading the notes and asking you specific questions about them. How are you going to handle this situation and what might the repercussions be in your options?

5. A patient who was traveling through Lake City when they feel ill has been discharged from your unit. The patient resides in a small town in Montana and had a flight scheduled to depart this morning at 8 am. It is now 1 pm and you are cleaning the room to prepare for the arrival of another patient admission. You find a very expensive Rolex watch that is diamond encrusted in the drawer of the bedside table. This patient had significant memory loss from the illness she is recovering from. The interesting part is that the patient was a man but the watch you found is a woman's watch. Your facility does not have a lost and found area or policy. What are you going to do. Provide your rationale behind your actions in detail.