Develop a solution to a specific ethical dilemma faced by a health care professional by applying ethical principles.
Capella FPX 4000 Assessment 1
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 3-5-page paper.
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
Capella FPX4000 Assessment 1
Capella FPX4000 Assessment 1
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. Capella FPX 4000 Assessment 1
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Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment 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 the effectiveness of the communication approaches present in a case study.
Discuss the effectiveness of the approach used by a professional to deal with problems or issues involving ethical practice in a case study.
Apply ethical principles to a possible solution to an ethical problem or issue described in a case study.
Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others, and that is consistent with expectations for health care professionals.
Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
Write following APA style for in-text citations, quotes, and references.
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, you will develop a solution to a specific ethical dilemma faced by a health care professional. In your assessment:
Access the Ethical Case Studies | Transcript media piece to review the case studies you may use for this assessment.
Select the case most closely related to your area of interest and use it to complete the assessment.
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.
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.
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.
Analyze the factors that contributed to the problem or issue.
Identify who is involved or affected by the problem or issue.
Describe the factors that contributed to the problem or issue and explain how they contributed.
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.
Cite and apply the journal article as evidence to support your critical thinking and analysis of the case.
Assess the credibility of the information source.
Assess the relevance of the information source.
Discuss the effectiveness of the communication approaches present in the case study.
Describe how the health care professional communicated with others.
Describe the communication and communication strategies that were applied, both in creating and in resolving the problems or issues presented.
Assess instances where the professional communicated effectively or ineffectively.
Discuss the effectiveness of the approach used by the professional related to any problems or issues involving ethical practice in the case.
Describe the actions taken in response to the ethical dilemma or challenge 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 the proposed problem or issue from the 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.
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.
Apply the principles of effective composition.
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:
Assessment 1 Example [PDF].
Additional Requirements
Length: At least 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and reference page.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
APA Template: Use the APA Style Paper Template [DOCX] as the paper format and 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.
Note: Read the Applying Ethical Principles Scoring Guide to fully understand how your paper will be graded.
If you would like assistance in organizing your assessment, or if you simply have a question about your assessment, do not hesitate to ask faculty or the teaching assistants in the NHS Learner Success Lab for guidance and suggestions.
Note:Your instructor may also use the Writing Feedback Tool to provide feedback on your writing. In the tool, click the linked resources for helpful writing information.
NHS-FPX 4000 Assessment 2 Instructions: Applying Research Skills
Create a 3-5-page annotated bibliography and summary based on your research related to best practices addressing one of the health care problems or issues in the Assessment Topic Areas media piece faced by a health care organization that is of interest to you.
Introduction
In your professional life, you will need to find credible evidence to support your decisions and your plans of action. You will want to keep abreast of best practices to help your organization adapt to the ever-changing health care environment. Being adept at research will help you find the information you need. For this assessment, you will review the Assessment Topic Areas media piece and select one of the health care problems or issues to research a current health care problem or issue faced by a health care organization that is of interest to you.
Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Apply information literacy and library research skills to obtain scholarly information in the field of health care.
Identify academic peer-reviewed journal articles relevant to a health care problem or issue and describe the criteria used for the literature search.
Competency 2: Apply scholarly information through critical thinking to solve problems in the field of health care.
Assess the credibility and relevance of information sources.
Summarize what was learned from developing an annotated bibliography.
Analyze academic peer-reviewed journal articles using the annotated bibliography organizational format.
Competency 4: Write for a specific audience, in appropriate tone and style, in accordance with Capella’s writing standards.
Summarize a health care problem or issue and describe a personal interest in it and experience with it.
Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
Write following APA style for in-text citations, quotes, and references.
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, research best practices related to a current health care problem. Your selected problem or issue will be utilized again in Assessment 3. To explore your chosen topic, you should use the first two steps of the Socratic Problem-Solving Approach to aid your critical thinking.
View the Assessment Topic Areas media piece and select one of the health care problems or issues in the media piece to research. Write a brief overview of the selected topic. In your overview:
Summarize the health care problem or issue.
Describe your interest in the topic.
Describe any professional experience you have with this topic.
Identify peer-reviewed articles relevant to health care issue or problem.
Conduct a search for scholarly or academic peer-reviewed literature related to the topic and describe the criteria you used to search for articles, including the names of the databases you used. You will select four current scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles published during the past 3–5 years that relate to your topic.
You will want to access the applicable Undergraduate Library Research Guide related to your degree (found at the NHS Learner Success Lab) for tips to help you in your search.
Use keywords related to the health care problem or issue you are researching to select relevant articles.
Assess the credibility and explain relevance of the information sources you find.
Determine if the source is from an academic peer-reviewed journal.
Determine if the publication is current.
Determine if information in the academic peer-reviewed journal article is still relevant.
Analyze academic peer-reviewed journal articles using the annotated bibliography organizational format. Provide rationale for inclusion of each selected article. The purpose of an annotated bibliography is to document a list of references along with key information about each one. The detail about the reference is the annotation. Developing this annotated bibliography will create a foundation of knowledge about the selected topic. In your annotated bibliography:
Identify the purpose of the article.
Summarize the information.
Provide rationale for inclusion of each article.
Include the conclusions and findings of the article.
Write your annotated bibliography in a paragraph form. The annotated bibliography should be approximately 150 words (1–3 paragraphs) in length.
List the full reference for the source in APA format (author, date, title, publisher, et cetera) and use APA format for the annotated bibliography.
Make sure the references are listed in alphabetical order, are double-spaced, and use hanging indents.
Summarize what you have learned from developing an annotated bibliography.
Summarize what you learned from your research in a separate paragraph or two at the end of the paper.
List the main points you learned from your research.
Summarize the main contributions of the sources you chose and how they enhanced your knowledge about the topic.
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:
Assessment 2 Example [PDF].
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: Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
Content: Provide a title page and reference page following APA style.
References: Use at least four scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles.
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.
NHS-FPX4000 Assessment 3 INSTRUCTIONS
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Apply information literacy and library research skills to obtain scholarly information in the field of health care.
Use scholarly information to describe and explain a health care problem or issue and identify possible causes for it.
Competency 2: Apply scholarly information through critical thinking to solve problems in the field of health care.
Analyze a health care problem or issue by describing the context, explaining why it is important and identifying populations affected by it.
Discuss potential solutions for a health care problem or issue and describe what would be required to implement a solution.
Competency 3: Apply ethical principles and academic standards to the study of health care.
Analyze the ethical implications if a potential solution to a health care problem or issue was implemented.
Competency 4: Write for a specific audience, in appropriate tone and style, in accordance with Capella’s writing standards.
Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
Write following APA style for in-text citations, quotes, and references.
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.
Describe the health care problem or issue you selected for use in Assessment 2 (from the Assessment Topic Areas | Transcript media piece) and provide details about it.
Explore your chosen topic. For this, you should use the first four steps of the Socratic Problem-Solving Approach to aid your critical thinking. This approach was introduced in Assessment 2.
Identify possible causes for the problem or issue.
Use scholarly information to describe and explain the health care problem or issue and identify possible causes for it.
Identify at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles about the topic.
You may find the How Do I Find Peer-Reviewed Articles? library guide helpful in locating appropriate references.
You may use articles you found while working on Assessment 2 or you may search the Capella library for other articles.
You may find the applicable Undergraduate Library Research Guide helpful in your search.
Review the Think Critically About Source Quality to help you complete the following:
Assess the credibility of the information sources.
Assess the relevance of the information sources.
Analyze the health care problem or issue.
Describe the setting or context for the problems or issues.
Describe why the problem or issue is important to you.
Identify groups of people affected by the problem or issue.
Provide examples that support your analysis of the problem or issue.
Discuss potential solutions for the health care problem or issue.
Describe what would be required to implement a solution.
Describe potential consequences of ignoring the problem or issue.
Provide the pros and cons for one of the solutions you are proposing.
Analyze the ethical implications if the potential solution (the one for which you provide pros and cons) were to be implemented.
Provide examples from the literature to support the points you are making.
Discuss the pros and cons of implementing the proposed solution from an ethical principle point of view.
Describe what would be required to implement the proposed solution.
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:
Assessment 3 Example [PDF].
Additional Requirements
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
Length: 4–6 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and reference page.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
APA template: Use the APA Style Paper Template [DOCX] as the paper format and the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOC] for guidance.
Written communication: Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
Using outside sources: Integrate information from outside sources into academic writing by appropriately quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing, following APA style.
References: Integrate information from outside sources to include at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles and three in-text citations within the paper.
APA format: Follow current APA guidelines for in-text citations of outside sources in the body of your paper and also on the reference page.
Organize your paper using the following structure and headings:
Title page. A separate page.
Introduction. A brief one-paragraph statement about the purpose of the paper.
Elements of the problem/issue. Identify the elements of the problem or issue or question.
Analysis. Analyze, define, and frame the problem or issue.
Considering options. Consider solutions, responses, or answers.
Solution. Choose a solution, response, or answer.
Ethical implications. Ethical implications of implementing the solution.
Implementation. Implementation of the potential solution.
Conclusion. One paragraph.
Applying Ethical Principles Scoring Guide
CRITERIA NON-PERFORMANCE BASIC PROFICIENT DISTINGUISHED
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The following is another example of the same essay:
Ethical Principles in Action
During their practice, health care professionals are frequently confronted with ethical issues that require them to make decisions based on their moral ideals and convictions. Autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice are the four essential concepts of health care ethics that serve as yardsticks for making fair and ethical decisions. In the realm of health care, these ethical standards are universally acknowledged. When presented with difficult scenarios involving patients, medical practitioners and health-care administrators frequently apply these principles to make judgments.
A Summary of the Case Study
Betsy is a committed pediatric nurse who is known for her compassion and concern for her patients. Alice, her next-door neighbor and friend, lives with her husband and Shirley, their 4-year-old daughter. Alice and her husband practice Christian Science, a religion that emphasizes spiritual healing over medical assistance in most cases. When Betsy pays a visit to Alice and Shirley, she notices Shirley having what appears to be a seizure. The infant becomes unresponsive and goes into a brief stare-down phase, her eyes rolling upward. She appears entirely ignorant of her surroundings during the first 20 seconds of the episode. Alice sits by Shirley’s side and prays during the seizure, but she does nothing else. Betsy is concerned about the little girl’s health and inquires about it with her buddy. Shirley used to have roughly 15–20 such episodes a day until a few months ago, Alice says Betsy, but that number has now dropped to around 12. Shirley’s health has improved as a result of Alice’s prayers and faith. This, however, does not make Betsy feel better about Shirley’s situation. Shirley almost certainly has epilepsy, which if not treated promptly might have serious health consequences. At the very least, she believes Alice should appropriately diagnose Shirley’s symptoms.
Betsy arranges a meeting with Shirley’s parents and Dr. Campbell, the director of her hospital’s neurology department, after realizing the gravity of the situation. She approaches the meeting as an intervention, and she and Dr. Campbell both express worry for Shirley’s health. They emphasize that Shirley’s symptoms improving does not necessarily imply that she will be cured. They understand Alice and her husband’s apprehension because of their religious beliefs, but they emphasize the significance of having Shirley’s symptoms diagnosed. To back up their claim, they give studies that show how seizures can be a sign of disorders like epilepsy, which can have a harmful impact on her cognition and conduct. Shirley’s parents are happy that Betsy and Dr. Campbell are concerned about their daughter’s health, but they are steadfast in their refusal to go against their religious beliefs. They believe that if she prays, she will be healed. Betsy is torn between respecting the parents’ religious views and not intervening in the situation and fulfilling her moral responsibilities as a health care provider.
Analyze the Case Study’s Ethical Issues
Shirley’s behavior is the key element that led to Betsy’s ethical problem in the case study.
Due to their Christian Science beliefs, the parents refused medical help for their daughter. When Betsy witnesses Shirley’s seizures, she believes it is her responsibility to make sure she gets medical help. She decides to discuss the risks of seizures because she respects Shirley’s parents’ religious faith and beliefs. Dr. Campbell is also included in the meeting so that he may provide an objective perspective and help them realize why medical intervention is necessary. Shirley’s parents, on the other hand, are confident that prayer will heal her seizures. Because their behavior could have major health consequences for Shirley, Betsy is concerned that the young girl get proper medical care (Baumrucker, et al., 2017).
Analyzing the Case Study Using the Ethical Decision-Making Model
Moral awareness, moral judgment, and ethical action are three components of the ethical decision-making model that can be used to assess the ethical dilemma raised in the case study. Moral judgment differs from moral awareness in that it recognizes the existence of an ethical issue.
When confronted with a problem, one must choose between the correct and bad acts. Ethical behavior is the result of both moral awareness and moral judgment. Taking the proper steps to fix a problem is what ethical behavior entails. The fact that Betsy realizes the circumstances behind Shirley’s situation reflects her moral awareness. Her moral judgment is shown in her attempt to persuade Shirley’s parents to seek medical care for her daughter because she believed it was the proper thing to do. The action that Betsy takes to overcome the challenge is defined by her ethical behavior. This, in turn, is dependent on her own judgment and the four health-care ethical principles (autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice) that she should follow as a health-care provider.
The Case Study’s Communication Approaches’ Effectiveness
When it comes to patient–physician communication, listening is crucial. Betsy learns the frequency of Shirley’s seizures and the decrease in their incidence through listening to Alice. She also discovers that Alice and her husband attribute their weight loss to their prayers and Christian Science faith. As a result, active listening aids Betsy’s comprehension of the issue.
Betsy understands that obtaining medical aid for Shirley without the approval of Shirley’s parents would be a violation of their right to informed consent and a breach of her professional boundaries as a health care provider. As a result, she resolves to provide them with the knowledge they require in order for them to make an informed decision. She has an open line of contact with Shirley’s parents, explaining how seizures affect their daughter’s health. Shirley’s seizures must be diagnosed as soon as possible, she says. As a result, Betsy effectively explains the situation to Shirley’s parents by respecting their feelings and presenting them with thorough information about the dilemma.
During the conversation with Shirley’s parents, Betsy and Dr. Campbell sympathize with Alice and her husband’s reluctance to seek medical care for their daughter due to their religious beliefs. Dr. Campbell appears to have been enlisted by Betsy in order for him to provide his impartial expert judgment based on his expertise dealing with patients with comparable symptoms. Shirley’s parents may have changed their minds if Dr. Campbell stated again that if Shirley’s seizures are ignored, she may develop serious cognitive impairments (such as learning difficulties and memory deficiencies) or behavioral problems (such as impatience, anxiety, hyperactivity, and mood swings). They were, however, unable to persuade Shirley’s parents to get her properly diagnosed.
Although Betsy took a methodical approach to dealing with the problem, it appears to have been ineffectual, as Shirley’s parents maintained their confidence in prayer. However, health care workers can learn from this case study by calmly listening to patients’ difficulties and interacting with them while demonstrating empathy and real care.
Applying Ethical Principles to Resolve the Ethical Dilemma
Autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice are four ethical principles that are frequently used to resolve ethical difficulties in health care. Autonomy entails embracing and comprehending patients’ values, beneficence entails working for the benefit of patients, nonmaleficence entails not harming patients, and justice entails treating patients fairly and without bias.
In this scenario, Betsy’s ethical issue encompasses three of the four major principles of medical ethics. The ethical dilemma in the case study is generated by a conflict between the principles of autonomy and beneficence and nonmaleficence on the one hand, and autonomy and beneficence and nonmaleficence on the other. Shirley’s parents’ liberty is preserved by Betsy’s respect for their religious views and refusal to coerce them into getting the girl diagnosed correctly. She also enlists the help of Dr. Campbell to try to persuade them of the need of receiving an accurate diagnosis.
Approaching Child Protective Services, a government-run social service agency that counsels and supports children and their families and promotes child welfare, could be an ethical way for Betsy to settle the difficulty. Because Betsy is responsible to assist Shirley in receiving medical care (beneficence) and to prevent any harm that may result from neglecting her seizures (nonmaleficence), she may request Child Protective Services’ assistance. Although involving Child Protective Services may violate the ethical ideal of autonomy, Betsy may be forced to make this decision in Shirley’s best interests (Baumrucker et al., 2017).
Conclusion
Health care workers can use the four principles of health care ethics to examine and address ethical challenges. Betsy must choose between honoring Shirley’s parents’ religious views and fulfilling her moral responsibilities as a health care practitioner by assisting Shirley in seeking medical care in the case study. To resolve Betsy’s ethical issue, the recommended solution entails preserving the principles of autonomy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence.
