Cedar Rapids nursing home worker needlessly exposed to infectious disease, judge rules [Keep reading: the employee did not want to serve hospice patients]

Cedar Rapids nursing home worker needlessly exposed to infectious disease, judge rules [Keep reading: the employee did not want to serve hospice patients] 
The Gazette; by Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch; 7/16/24 
A social worker for an Iowa nursing home was justified in quitting after the facility failed to inform her and others of residents who had serious, contagious diseases, according to a judge’s ruling. State records indicate Mary Lovejoy Castaneda was employed by the nursing home chain Care Initiatives as a full-time social worker at Cedar Rapids’ Heritage Specialty Care from March through May of this year. She resigned after citing “stress and anxiety” related to the job, which entailed working with hospice patients. ... [Additionally,] when Care Initiatives hired Castaneda the company assured her it would refrain from assigning her hospice patients, only to later begin doing so. 
Editor's Note: Yes, lack of information about patients with "serious, contagious diseases" with the need to wear PPE is a significant offense and must be fixed. However, the social worker employee requesting [refusing?] to serve hospice patitents within a nursing home facility raises significant ethical concerns about care for patients and their families. The staff/patient ratio for social workers in a nursing facilities requires extensive, broad coverage of its aged population and long term prognoses. Though without contextual, background information, this editor/hospice professional states that the Job Description should have included and required the responsibility from the social worker for patients in its facility who do or might receive hospice care. Click on the title's link to continue reading.