Assignment: Applying Ethical Models

Assignment: Applying Ethical Models
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Assignment: Applying Ethical Models

Wk 3 – Applying an Ethical Decision-Making Model
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This assignment reinforces the importance of ethical decision-making in nursing. You will apply an ethical decision making model from this week’s readings to an ethical issue.

Review “An Integrated Ethical-Decision-Making Model for Nurses” from this week’s University Library Readings.

Apply the PARK Ethical Decision-making Model from Appendix 1 in the article to a CLINICAL ethical issue of your choice.

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Note: If you have questions about your chosen topic, contact your faculty member to ensure it is appropriate.

Follow the steps provided in the model, including the following:

-State the ethical issue and its relevance for nursing practice.

-Collect and analyze additional information:

-What populations does this serve?

-Who are the key stakeholders?

-What information is needed to overcome the problem?

-After looking at additional information, decide whether the initial problem was correctly stated.

-Develop alternatives and compare them:

-What alternative programs address the issues?

-Justify the decision:

-Explain why this is important, needed, or beneficial for vulnerable populations.

-Find strategies to implement the plan:

-What ethical arguments could you use to dissuade someone who disagrees with the program?

Format your assignment in APA formatted Microsoft Office Word or PPT as one of the following:

-18- to 20-slide presentation with speaker notes for each slide, including integrated citations

or

-875-word paper including integrated citations

Cite at least 3 evidence-based, peer-reviewed sources published within the last 5 years to support your position(s).

Include an APA-formatted reference list.

On a separate page:

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Nurses face ethical situations every day. Currently, the ANA has a list of ethics resources pertaining to the following topics:

-Social justice

-Moral courage, distress, and resilience

-End of life issues

-Caregiving

-Bioethics

Think about ethical situations you have experienced in practice.
Write a summary of your experiences and explain how the situation was resolved or ended.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.