Prompt
Your 88-year-old grandmother has memory loss and lives in a care home, where she shares a room with another resident. Last week your family found a large bruise on her arm, and the staff could not explain how it happened. Your aunt wants to hide a small camera in the room. The home's policy forbids cameras unless everyone in the room has agreed, and no one has asked the roommate or her family. On her better days, your grandmother has said she would hate the feeling of being watched. Your aunt asks you to install the camera during your visit tomorrow, because the staff know you and will not notice. What would you do?
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What this question tests
- Ethical reasoning
- Empathy and compassion
- Critical thinking
How to approach this question
This MMI station sets your grandmother's safety against three kinds of privacy (hers, her roommate's and the staff's), with your aunt asking you to break the home's rule in secret. A strong answer treats the unexplained bruise as a real concern before saying anything about the camera. Name everyone involved, including the roommate who never agreed and your grandmother's own wish not to be watched. Then lay out options that don't depend on deceiving the home, such as a meeting with management, a written incident review, visits at different times, and asking the roommate's family whether they'd consent to monitoring. Decide clearly whether you'll install it and explain why. If the station adds a twist where footage reveals harm to someone else, separate how the evidence was gathered from the duty to protect the person it shows.
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