Question

2. Ethical Issue #2: By law, health care practitioners can perform only those duties that are within their scope of practice-that is, those duties for which they are duly licensed, certified, registered, and competent. • As a student’s medical assistant, you have learned the correct technique for giving a shot, but you have never perfected the technique. You begin working in a clinic right after graduation, and your first assigned duty is to give a flu shot to an elderly patient, and you don’t want to do it. Is it ethical for you to do it anyway? Would it be ethical for you to ask someone else to administer the shot?

Answer 1

2. Ethical Issue #2:

No. It is unethical to give a flu shot as a student's medical assistant because it can cause a serious risk. For example Air embolus. I would call a licensed medical provider to supervise me while administering the shots and to correct me if I am wrong. It will be helpful to learn the thing as a part of teaching protocol as the medical assistant are well trained in giving injections. But the graduate students without medical licenses, it would be illegal to administer flu shots.