Professional Workplace Dilemma
Being employed in the healthcare field is no easy task by far; you are faced with moral and ethical decisions daily. Not only are you faced with some tough questions, you are also faced with some tough decisions. At least one time or another on a job you may have experienced something that contradicts your views and beliefs or come in contact with an individual that has a slightly different definition of right and wrong and of what’s ethical and unethical. I am quite surprised each time I encounter an individual or situation that requires one to be a little right or wrong or a little ethical or unethical for the greater good.
I am currently employed at a place called Oak Hammock at the University of Florida. I work on the Assisted Living wing. The workplace dilemma that I experienced involves one individual forcing another individual’s personal opinion of race and racial interactions upon others by using tools that were created to help do well; as leverage to enforce unjust things. To this day I have not received an answer to the question “Do staff members have rights?”
I have been working in the same field for many years but have only been employed at my current place of employment for three years. For the past three years I have listened closely but quietly as members of Oak Hammock have frequently referred to staff members of different origin and nationality, other than Caucasian, as various animals, objects and racial euphemisms. My fiancé and I work at the same the Assisted Living wing of Oak Hammock however in two different departments. I am the Team Assistant for Assisted Living and he is the chef for the dining room. Occasionally throughout the day he would stop my de ...