Instructions: In this activity, you will perform 2 roles: 1) the learner who will respond to the prompt below (steps 1-2) and 2) the peer evaluator (steps 3-4). Please review and complete each step of the assignment listed below

Step 1: Read the scenario provided below.

In a recent visit to the primary care provider, Amy confided in the nurse about a personal difficulty, unrelated to her medical condition, that she is experiencing. After Amy left the office the nurse shared this private information with other employees in the practice who are not involved in Amy’s care. The patients in the waiting room also overheard the nurse share this personal information with other office staff.

Step 2: Compose a 200-400 word essay responding to this interchange within the office. Please review the reflection questions below and provide your answers to them in your response.  

Reflection questions:

• How could the nurse have expressed compassion, service, and trustworthiness in this situation?
• What principles of practice and duties could the nurse have implemented to ensure that her behaviors were professional?

Step 3: Review one of your peer’s responses and provide an evaluation based on the following questions.

Evaluation questions:

• Did your peer describe how the nurse could have expressed compassion, service, and trustworthiness in this situation?
• Did your peer discuss what principles of practice and duties the nurse could have implemented to ensure that her behaviors were professional?

OPTIONAL Step 4: Interact (10 minutes)

If you would like to, you can reply to your peers' posts in a respectful and professional manner. Ensure that your post engages your peers' ideas by including a reflection on their comments, sharing ideas of other potential difficulties and parties involved, or asking thought-provoking questions. If a peer comments on your posting, please reply. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “Post to forum.”

Which of the following principles do you think is most important to medical professionalism, and why?

a) Primacy of patient welfare
b) Patient autonomy
c) Social justice