Ethical Case Study
ASSIGNMENT
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. Be sure to identify any speculations that you make.
Write Your Paper
To complete this assignment, do the following:
Summarize the facts of the case study using peer-reviewed journal articles as evidence to support analysis of the case.
Assess the credibility of information sources.
Assess the relevance of the information sources.
Use critical thinking to identify the factors.
Identify who is involved or affected by the problem or issue.
Describe how factors contributed to the problem or issue.
Discuss the effectiveness of the communication approaches presented in the case study.
Describe how the health care professional communicated with others.
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.
Assess instances where the professional communicated effectively or ineffectively.
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.
Describe the proposed solution.
Discuss how you would address the ethical principles (beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice) within that solution.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment, 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.
Summarize the facts of a case study using peer-reviewed journal articles as evidence to support analysis of the case.
Competency 3: Apply ethical principles and academic standards to the study of health care.
Discuss the effectiveness of the approach used by the professional in a case study as it relates to the ethical decision-making model.
Apply ethical principles to a possible solution to the proposed problem or issue from 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.
Produce text with minimal grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
Integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
