Through My Eyes
Scenario #1
A75‐yearoldmanwithpulmonaryfibrosisisadmittedforpneumonia.Asyouaregoingtowardshisroomtogivehimhismedications,youhearhispartnersaytohiminanastytoneofvoice:“Stopbeingsostubborn.Ineedyoutogivemeaccesstoyourbankaccounts.You’regoingtodiealoneunlessyoustartcooperating.”Asyouentertheroom,theyoungman leavesquicklyandyounoticethatthepatienthastearsinhiseyes.YouaskifeverythingisOKandthepatientshakeshishead“Yes”,butdoesn’tsayanything.Afteradministeringthemedicationyouleave,buttheexchangebetweenthemkeepsre‐playing inyourhead.
Cards for Scenario #1
- What are possible personal feelings?
- What are the legal responsibilities of this person’s position?
- How can this person help this situation?
- What arepossible personal feelings?
- Is this proper treatment?
- What options does this person have?
- What are possible personal feelings?
- What options are available?
- Can the child prevent this from happening?
- What arepossible personal feelings?
- What are the legal responsibilities of this person’s position?
- What could you do to help?
Scenario #2
An 8-year old girl tells her teacher about how she has been “the mommy” to her little 2-year-old brother each night while her father (who is a single parent) is at work. You ask her if she has a babysitter to help her, and she says, "No."
No harm has come to the children. You contact the father at work, and he tells you to “mind your own business.”
Cards for Scenario #2
- Is this situation fair to this child?
- How might this child feel?
- What possible experiences is this child missing out on?
- Is this situation fair to this child?
- Does this child feel safe and secure?
- What possible experiences is this child missing out on?
- What are possible personal feelings?
- What are the legal responsibilities of this person’s position?
- How can this person help this situation?
- What arepossible personal feelings?
- What are the legal responsibilities of this person’s position?
- What could be the reason for this behavior?
Scenario #3
A woman comes into the pharmacy to pick up her own prescriptions. The pharmacist knows her and says that there are two prescriptions also ready for her mother and inquires whether or not she’d like to take them with her. The prescriptions have been waiting for quite a long time for pick up. The daughter replies in an angry tone: “I’ll get those drugs later when I get around to it. She’ll get by.”
Cards for Scenario #3
- What are possible personal feelings?
- What are the legal responsibilities of this person’s position?
- How can this person help this situation?
- Is this situation fair to the elderly mother?
- Is the woman in a safe and secure environment?
- What are possible dangers that can result from this situation?
- What are possible personal feelings?
- What are the legal responsibilities of this person’s position?
- How can this person help this situation?
- What arepossible personal feelings?
- What are the legal responsibilities of this person’s position?
- What could be the reason for this behavior?
Scenario #4
A friend complains to you about her neighbors – a man, woman, and their six-year-old son. The friend fears that the young boy is not properly cared for. The man and woman yell loudly all the time and the boy appears unhappy and unclean. She doesn’t think that he gets to school regularly, and he appears to be out-of-control and gets on his parents’ nerves. The friend tells you aboutan incident when the son was three years old. The father grabbed the boy and hung him outof their third story apartment. He threatened to drop the boy if he did not
behave. The boy was heavy and the father nearly lost his grip on the child when
the mother grabbed the child and brought him back into the apartment.
Cards for Scenario #4
- Is this situation fair to this child?
- How might this child feel?
- What possible experiences is this child missing out on?
- Is this situation fair to this child?
- What are the legal responsibilities of this person?
- What possible experiences is this child missing out on?
- What are possible personal feelings?
- Does the child feel safe and secure?
- What possible experiences is the child missing out on?
- What arepossible personal feelings?
- What are the legal responsibilities of this person’s position?
- What could be the reason for this behavior?
Scenario #5
There is a strained relationship between a father and his 15-year-old daughter. The father has set 11:00 p.m. as the curfew for his daughter. The daughter returns home at 1:00 am, the third time in the past two weeks that she has missed the curfew. After each incident, the emotion between father and daughter has been escalating. This time, the father has been drinking and he is enraged. The father chases his daughter but cannot catch her. In desperation, he picks up a chair and hurls it at her and she ducks down so that the chair narrowly misses her head. The legs of the chair are implanted in the drywall-constructed wall.
Cards for Scenario #5
*Note: In this scenario two students will assume the same role, but present different views.*
- What arepossible personal feelings?
- What are the legal responsibilities of this person’s position?
- What could be the reason for this behavior?
- What are possible personal feelings?
- What could the behavior be linked to?
- What possible experiences is this child missing out on?
- What are possible personal feelings?
- What are the legal responsibilities of this person’s position?
- What could be the reason for this behavior?
- What arepossible personal feelings?
- What could the behavior be linked to?
- What possible experiences is this child missing out on?