Develop a solution to a specific ethical dilemma faced by a health care professional by applying ethical principles. Describe the issues and a possible solution in a paper of 3-5 pages.
I ATTACHED THE DOCUMENT THAT SHOWS THE TWO CASE STUDIES TO PICK FROM BELOW***
I ATTACHED THE ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING MODEL MEDIA TO VIEW IN ATTACHEMENTS BELOW**
Introduction
Whether you are a nurse, a public health professional, a health care administrator, or in another role in the health care field, you must base your decisions on a set of ethical principles and values. Your decisions must be fair, equitable, and defensible. Each discipline has established a professional code of ethics to guide ethical behavior. In this assessment, you will practice working through an ethical dilemma as described in a case study. Your practice will help you develop a method for formulating ethical decisions.
Instructions
Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. At a minimum, be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.
For this assessment, develop a solution to a specific ethical dilemma faced by a health care professional. In your assessment:
- Select one of the case studies presented in the Assessment 03 Supplement: Applying Ethical Principles [PDF] Download Assessment 03 Supplement: Applying Ethical Principles [PDF]resource. I ATTACHED THE DOCUMENT THAT SHOWS THE TWO CASE STUDIES TO PICK FROM
- Note: The case study may not supply all of the information you need. In such cases, you should consider a variety of possibilities and infer potential conclusions. However, please be sure to identify any assumptions or speculations you make.
- Summarize the facts in the selected case study and use the three components of an ethical decision-making model to analyze an ethical problem or issue and the factors that contributed to it.
- Identify which case study you selected and briefly summarize the facts surrounding it. Identify the problem or issue that presents an ethical dilemma or challenge and describe that dilemma or challenge.
- Identify who is involved or affected by the ethical problem or issue.
- Access the Ethical Decision-Making Model media piece and use the three components of the ethical decision-making model (moral awareness, moral judgment, and ethical behavior) to analyze the ethical issues. I ATTACHED THE ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING MODEL MEDIA TO VIEW IN ATTACHEMENTS BELOW**
- Apply the three components outlined in the Ethical Decision-Making Model media.
- Analyze the factors that contributed to the ethical problem or issue identified in the case study.
- Describe the factors that contributed to the problem or issue and explain how they contributed.
- Apply academic peer-reviewed journal articles relevant to an ethical problem or issue as evidence to support an analysis of the case.
- In addition to the readings provided, use the Capella library to locate at least one academic peer-reviewed journal article relevant to the problem or issue that you can use to support your analysis of the situation. The NHS-FPX4000: Developing a Health Care Perspective Library Guide will help you locate appropriate references. You will select at least one current scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles published during the past 3–5 years that relate to your topic.
- Cite and apply key principles from the journal article as evidence to support your critical thinking and analysis of the ethical problem or issue.
- Review the Think Critically About Source Quality resource.
- Assess the credibility of the information source.
- Assess the relevance of the information source.
- Discuss the effectiveness of the communication approaches present in a case study.
- Describe how the health care professional in the case study communicated with others.
- Assess instances where the professional communicated effectively or ineffectively.
- Explain which communication approaches should be used and which ones should be avoided.
- Describe the consequences of using effective and non-effective communication approaches.
- Discuss the effectiveness of the approach used by a professional to deal with problems or issues involving ethical practice in a case study.
- Describe the actions taken in response to the ethical dilemma or issue presented in the case study.
- Summarize how well the professional managed professional responsibilities and priorities to resolve the problem or issue in the case.
- Discuss the key lessons this case provides for health care professionals.
- Apply ethical principles to a possible solution to an ethical problem or issue described in a case study.
- Describe the proposed solution.
- Discuss how the approach makes this professional more effective or less effective in building relationships across disciplines within his or her organization.
- Discuss how likely it is the proposed solution will foster professional collaboration.
- Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
- Apply the principles of effective composition.
- Determine the proper application of the rules of grammar and mechanics.
- Write using APA style for in-text citations, quotes, and references.
- Determine the proper application of APA formatting requirements and scholarly writing standards.
- Integrate information from outside sources into academic writing by appropriately quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing, following APA style.
Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:
Additional Requirements
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
- Length: 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and reference page.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
- APA tutorial: Use the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX] for guidance.
- Written communication: Use correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
- References: Integrate information from outside sources to include at least two references (the case study and an academic peer-reviewed journal article) and three in-text citations within the paper.
- APA format: Follow current APA guidelines for in-text citation of outside sources in the body of your paper and also on the reference page.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 1: Apply information literacy and library research skills to obtain scholarly information in the field of health care.
- Apply academic peer-reviewed journal articles relevant to an ethical problem or issue as evidence to support an analysis of the case.
- Competency 3: Apply ethical principles and academic standards to the study of health care.
- Summarize the facts in a case study and use the three components of an ethical decision-making model to analyze an ethical problem or issue and the factors that contributed to it.
- Discuss effective communication approaches the provider can use to address the issue in the case study.
- Apply ethical principles to a possible solution to an ethical problem or issue described in a case study.
- Competency 4: Write for a specific audience, in appropriate tone and style, in accordance with Capella’s writing standards.
- Discuss the effectiveness of the communication approaches present in a case study.
- Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
- Write following APA style for in-text citations, quotes, and references.
Scoring Guide
Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.
Criterion 1
Summarize the facts of a case study using peer-reviewed journal articles as evidence to support analysis of the case.
Distinguished
Assesses the facts of the case study using peer-reviewed journal articles as evidence to support analysis of the case, including reasons why the chosen articles support the analysis.
Proficient
Summarizes the facts of a case study using peer-reviewed journal articles as evidence to support analysis of the case.
Basic
Identifies the facts of the case study using peer-reviewed journal articles as evidence to support analysis of the case.
Non Performance
Does not summarize the facts of a case study using peer-reviewed journal articles as evidence to support analysis of the case.
Criterion 2
Discuss effective communication approaches the provider can use to address the issue in the case study.
Distinguished
Discusses effective communication approaches the provider can use to address the issue in the case study with support from scholarly references.
Proficient
Discusses effective communication approaches the provider can use to address the issue in the case study.
Basic
Describes potential communication approaches but does not clearly relate the approaches to the case study.
Non Performance
Does not discuss effective communication approaches the provider can use to address the issue in the case study.
Criterion 3
Discuss the effectiveness of the approach used by the professional in a case study as it relates to the three components of the ethical decision-making model.
Distinguished
Discusses the effectiveness of the approach used by the professional in the case study as it relates to the ethical decision-making model, including consequences of using effective and noneffective approaches.
Proficient
Discusses the effectiveness of the approach used by the professional in a case study as it relates to the three components of the ethical decision-making model.
Basic
Describes the approach used by the professional in the case study as it relates to the ethical decision-making model.
Non Performance
Does not discuss the effectiveness of the approach used by the professional in a case study as it relates to the three components of the ethical decision-making model.
Criterion 4
Apply ethical principles to a possible solution to the proposed problem or issue from a case study.
Distinguished
Applies ethical principles to a possible solution to the proposed problem or issue from the case study, explaining why the proposed solution is based in ethical principles.
Proficient
Applies ethical principles to a possible solution to the proposed problem or issue from a case study.
Basic
Identifies ethical principles related to the possible solution to the proposed problem or issue from the case study.
Non Performance
Does not identify ethical principles related to the possible solution to the proposed problem or issue from the case study.
Criterion 5
Produce text with minimal grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
Distinguished
Produces text free of grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
Proficient
Produces text with minimal grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
Basic
Produces text with some grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors, making text difficult to follow at times.
Non Performance
Produces text with significant grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors, making text difficult to follow.
Criterion 6
Integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
Distinguished
Integrates into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style without errors and uses current reference sources.
Proficient
Integrates into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
Basic
Integrates into text mostly appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style, but there are lapses in style use.
Non Performance
Does not integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.