NHS 4000 CU Ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare Paper

NHS 4000DEV HEALTH CARE PERPECTIVETOPIC: APPLYING ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
Prepare
For this assignment, you will develop a solution to a specific ethical dilemma
faced by a heath care professional. Consider the ethical dilemma the health care
professional is faced with in your selected case study. In addition to the week’s
readings, use the Capella library to locate at least one academic peer-reviewed
journal article you can use to support your analysis of the situation.
If you have not yet done so, use the Ethical Case Studies interactive to select a
case study. Specifically, identify which case study you selected and briefly
summarize the facts surrounding the case study. Then, use the three
components of the Ethical Decision-Making Model (moral awareness, moral
judgment, and ethical behavior) and the four core principles that health care
professionals need to know and honor when helping patients:
• Autonomy: To honor the patient’s right to make their own decisions.
• Beneficence: To help the patient advance their own good.
• Nonmaleficence: To do no harm.
• Justice: To be fair and treat like cases alike, which will be used to inform your
work.
Note: The case study may not supply all the information you may need. In such
cases, you should consider a variety of possibilities and infer potential
conclusions. Please be sure to identify any speculations that you make.
Write Your Paper
To complete this assignment, do the following:
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Summarize the facts of the case study using peer-reviewed journal articles as
evidence to support analysis of the case.
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Assess the credibility of information sources.
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Assess the relevance of the information sources.
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Use critical thinking to identify the factors.
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Identify who is involved or affected by the problem or issue.
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Describe how factors contributed to the problem or issue.
Discuss the effectiveness of the communication approaches presented in the
case study.
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Describe how the health care professional communicated with others.
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Describe the role of communication and communication strategies in
both creating and resolving the problems or issues presented.
Discuss the effectiveness of the approach used by the professional in the case
study as it relates to the ethical decision-making model.
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Assess instances where the professional communicated effectively or
ineffectively.
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Describe the ethical practices presented in the case study.
Apply ethical principles to a possible solution to the proposed problem or
issue from the case study.
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Describe the proposed solution.
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Discuss how you would address the ethical principles (beneficence,
nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice) within that solution.
Academic Requirements
Your paper should meet the following requirements:
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Writing: Produce text with minimal grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanical
errors.
• Apply the principles of effective composition.
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Sources: Integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence,
and citation style.
• Include the case study and at least one academic peer-reviewed journal
article on health care.
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Length: Include at least 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages, in addition to the
title page and reference page.
Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12 point.
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References: Use 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.
• Academic Honesty: Submit a draft of your assignment to SafeAssign and
make any necessary changes before you submit it to your instructor for
grading.
Example assignment: You may use the Applying Ethical Principles Example
Assignment [PDF] to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the
scoring guide would look like.
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