So its been a few days since my last blog, and it has been rough in between. Dallas has basically been covered in a blanket of snow for 6 of the last 9 days. The Super Bowl was in town, and my team lost. So its been rough for me.....The last time I wrote, I touched on employers asking their workers to come in under treacherous driving conditions. I brought this up in class on Monday I received quite a few different responses. Most of the class thought that companies should value their employees lives more than making a buck. For they truly are the glue that holds the company together. Someone made a valid statement when they said that if everybody stayed at home during bad weather the worst could happen.......Lets dig into that a little more.....Lets say the nurse at the local hospital didn't show up for work last week.....at all. Is she wrong for not putting her own life at risk for the sake of others?????? Is this an unethical decision?? Lets say she lives 30 miles from the hospital...and another nurse lives 3 miles away. Does the nurse who lives further have a valid excuse for not showing up?? Should the nurse who stays closer and shows up to work be rewarded?? Is that ethical?? Is that fair to the other nurse who lives further?? Or is she just doing here job?? How do you make this fair for all involved?? Obviously the patients who don't have a nurse suffer, but lets say the nurse does leave her house and slides off an overpass, and loses her life?? Did she make the right decision?? Di her ethics cost her, her life?? Should our drive to do whats right lead us to displacing our own self interest?? Sometimes it will and most of the time this is exactly what happens......
Its safe to day that ethics is not cut and dry and will not always make the right decision, depending on who is affected. We have to think ethically everyday and ask ourselves simple question like...."would I want to be treated this way?? If someone did this to me how would it make me feel?? Could I justify my actions if I had to explain them to someone else"
i like this one. very true! only prayer to me would make the difference of making the "right" decision. because one way of doing things is not always right or ethical for every situation.for example: the nurse who lives 30 miles away from her job staying home every time it snows would not be "right" or wise.
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