Discussion: Ethical Case Studies
Discussion: Ethical Case Studies
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Discussion: Ethical Case Studies

For this assessment, you will develop a solution to a specific ethical dilemma faced by a health care professional. In your assessment:

1. Access the Ethical Case Studies | Transcript media piece to review the case studies you may use for this assessment.

o Select the case most closely related to your area of interest and use it to complete the assessment.

o 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.

2. 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.

3. Access the Ethical Decision-Making Model | Transcript 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.

4. Analyze the factors that contributed to the problem or issue.

o Identify who is involved or affected by the problem or issue.

o Describe the factors that contributed to the problem or issue and explain how they contributed.

5. In addition to the readings provided, use the 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.

o Cite and apply the journal article as evidence to support your critical thinking and analysis of the case.

o Assess the credibility of the information source.

o Assess the relevance of the information source.

6. Discuss the effectiveness of the communication approaches present in the case study.

o Describe how the health care professional communicated with others.

o Describe the communication and communication strategies that were applied, both in creating and in resolving the problems or issues presented.

o Assess instances where the professional communicated effectively or ineffectively.

7. Discuss the effectiveness of the approach used by the professional related to any problems or issues involving ethical practice in the case.

o Describe the actions taken in response to the ethical dilemma or challenge presented in the case study.

o Summarize how well the professional managed professional responsibilities and priorities to resolve the problem or issue in the case.

o Discuss the key lessons this case provides for health care professionals.

8. Apply ethical principles to a possible solution to the proposed problem or issue from the case study.

o Describe the proposed solution.
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.