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Kelly Burlison is an experienced healthcare and quality measurement professional with experience interviewing in the healthcare field focusing on IT.
Although there are many controls placed on medication distribution and administration, stealing medication is still a common problem amongst staff, especially in the face of the current opioid crisis. This scenario puts the candidate in an ethical dilemma of whether he or she should confront their coworker, notify their supervisor, or turn the other direction and take no action. To effectively answer this question, you should discuss how you would take action on the matter, preferably, notifying a supervisor of the colleague's behavior. A more successful answer to this question would include an example of how the candidate took action after witnessing a similar situation.

Kelly Burlison is an experienced healthcare and quality measurement professional with experience interviewing in the healthcare field focusing on IT.
"This is a difficult situation, but if I thought I saw something like this, I would have to report it to my supervisor. I could not allow something like this to rest on my conscience, and as a nurse, I know it is my ethical responsibility to report such incidents. I actually was in a similar situation one time, when I saw one of my coworkers give a friend who was visiting medications, without a prescription or documentation. After I witnessed this, I didn't make excuses for my coworker; I reported it to my supervisor so she could investigate the details."

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