Through My Eyes

Scenario #1

A 75‐year old man with pulmonary fibrosis is admitted for pneumonia. As you are going towards
his room to give him his medications, you hear his partner say to him in a nasty tone of voice:
“Stop being so stubborn. I need you to give me access to your bank accounts. You’re going to
die alone unless you start cooperating.” As you enter the room, the young man leaves quickly
and you notice that the patient has tears in his eyes. You ask if everything is OK and the patient
shakes his head “Yes”, but doesn’t say anything. After administering the medication you leave,
but the exchange between them keeps re‐playing in your head.

Cards for Scenario #1

Nurse 75-year old

man

 What are possible personal feelings?  What are possible personal feelings?

 What are the legal responsibilities of  Is this proper treatment?

this person’s position?
 What options does this person have?
 How can this person help this
situation?

Partner By-stander

 What are possible personal feelings?  What are possible personal feelings?

 What options are available?  What are the legal responsibilities of

this person’s position?
 Can the child prevent this from
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 What could you do to help?
happening?

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

2-Year-Old

8-Year-Old

 Is this situation fair to this child?

 Does this child feel safe and secure?

 Is this situation fair to this child?
 What possible experiences is this child
 How might this child feel? missing out on?

 What possible experiences is this child

missing out on?

School Father
Principal

 What are possible personal feelings?  What are possible personal feelings?

 What are the legal responsibilities of  What are the legal responsibilities of
this person’s position? this person’s position?

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 How can this person help this
 What could be the reason for this
situation?
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

Woman

Mother

 What are possible personal feelings?

 What are the legal responsibilities of

this person’s position?  Is this situation fair to the elderly
mother?
 How can this person help this
situation?  Is the woman in a safe and secure
environment?

 What are possible dangers that can

result from this situation?

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By-stander
Pharmacist

 What are possible personal feelings?

 What are possible personal feelings?
 What are the legal responsibilities of
this person’s position?
 What are the legal responsibilities of
this person’s position?
 What could be the reason for this
behavior?
 How can this person help this
situation?

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 about
an incident when the son was three years old. The father grabbed the boy
and hung him out of 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

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Mother

Friend

 Is this situation fair to this child?

 What are the legal responsibilities of

 Is this situation fair to this child? this person?

 How might this child feel?  What possible experiences is this child
missing out on?
 What possible experiences is this child
missing out on?

6-Year-Old Father
Son

 What are possible personal feelings?  What are possible personal feelings?

 Does the child feel safe and secure?
 What possible experiences is the child
missing out on?
 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

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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.*

Father #1 Daughter
#1

 What are possible personal feelings?  What are possible personal feelings?

 What are the legal responsibilities of
this person’s position?
 What could be the reason for this
behavior?
 What could the behavior be linked to?
 What possible experiences is this child
missing out on?

Father #2 Daughter
#2

 What are possible personal feelings?  What are possible personal feelings?

 What are the legal responsibilities of
this person’s position?
 What could be the reason for this
behavior?
 What could the behavior be linked to?
 What possible experiences is this child
missing out on?

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