must respond to Christina’s post below.
What do you think is the ethical thing to do in this situation and what would you choose to do regardless?
No questions about it, I would fire Rob Spears. Never mind the fact that he is perfectly ok with committing document fraud, to the point that he is joking about it with people! But more importantly, he is completely at ease with the fact that he is in there every day putting the lives of his patients at risk. Health care workers are among the highest risk for contracting communicable diseases, also making them at higher risk of spreading the same diseases among their patients (Field, 2009). Rob moves from patient to patient and with each contact runs the risk of either contracting COVID himself or passing it on to someone who is severely immuno-compromised. His negligence is astounding. He blatantly ignored the new rule which required the COVID vaccine. Sadly, medical professionals across the world ran into this same issue. Many chose to quit in protest, many got fired for their outright refusal to get the vaccine. Rob chose to follow the more illegal route and present a forged immunization card. He would be terminated for cause, which in this case would certainly produce the best result for the most amount of people (Gilbert, 2016).
References
Field, R. JD, MPH, PhD. (2009). Mandatory vaccination of health care workers. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2810172/
Gilbert, J. (2016). Ethics for managers: philosophical foundations and business realities (Chapter 9). Routledge. Retrieved from https://eds-p-ebscohost-com.ezproxy.umgc.edu/eds/ebookviewer/ebook?sid=be1caff2-31b5-4ed5-ac80-01fd732c5524%40redis&ppid=pp_154&vid=0&format=EB
