A student medical assistant doing his/her internship in a physician's office refuses to wipe up a spilled drink in the exam room hallway because she he/she believes housekeeping is not part of his/her job description. The student is demonstrating the absence of which quality deemed necessary for successful health care practitioners?
A. compassion
B. technical skill
C. common sense
D. courtesy
E. etiquette
C. common sense
All health care personnel are responsible for maintaining a safe workplace. If a patient or another employee were to slip and fall because the student thought it was not his/her job, that demonstrates a lack of common sense.
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