A colleague asks his friend, a technologist, for the results of his pregnancy te

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A colleague asks his friend, a technologist, for the results of his pregnancy test. The technology obliged after telling his friend that he is doing him a big favor, and that he should not tell anyone that he The test was positive. The laboratory manager was told about it another employee. 1. Evaluate the information and the problem. 2. Identify the stakeholders. 3. What are the values at risk? 4. What are the moral responsibilities of the laboratory technologist? 5. What are the moral responsibilities of the laboratory manager? 6. How should the laboratory manager proceed? In order to achieve a task (small or large) that requires a group of individuals with the same or complementary skills, management of the group of the organization is an essential component of a success organization charged with a task. Even through modern management principles of an organization recent phenomena, nevertheless the management practices have been existence for thousands of years. The Romans were great engineers

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Case study:

Consider the following for reference only while outlining your answer.Also you can refer a few articles while doing the same.(one such article link is shared as below).

http://clinchem.aaccjnls.org/content/clinchem/36/8/1404.1.full.pdf

1. Information: A test result was announced to a third party who is associated to the primary stakeholder without her knowledge by a laboratory personnel in secret. This was bought to the notice of the manager by another technologist.

Problem:

2. Stakeholders:The person's girlfriend and the Laboratory personnel are the primary stakeholders.There is a contract between the lab and its personnel to keep any information related to the patient confidential. The relatives or associates of the patient do not fall under the stakeholder category unless the patient states so.Probably the secondary stakeholders will be the management of the laboratory.

3.Values at risk:

4.Moral responsibilities of the laboratory technologist:The moral responsibility of the medical lab technologist was to keep all pateint/test information confidential in line to the professional ethics that he has to adhere to as per his certification and profession. In this case the person violated his professional ethics by informing a third party who is related only by association to the person who took the test.

5. Moral responsibilities of the Laboratory manager: Laboratory manager is also bound by professional ethics to handle the situation in such a way that justice is brought to all parties at stake.

6. Manager's next move:

There are many aspects that are not dealt here related to grievances from the patient if any, probably the lab management has to have measures in place for such situations or they will have to battle it out in court if the case may be.

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