Write a 4-6 page analysis of a current problem or issue in health care, including a proposed solution and possible ethical implications.
1. Describe the health care problem or issue you selected for use in Assessment 2 (from the Assessment Topic Areas 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.
2. 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.
3. Analyze the health care problem or issue.
• Describe the setting or context for the problem or issue.
• 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.
4. 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.
5. Explain the ethical principles (Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, Autonomy, and Justice) if potential solution was implemented.
• Describe what would be necessary to implement the proposed solution.
• Explain the ethical principles that need to be considered (Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, Autonomy, and Justice) if the potential solution was implemented.
• Provide examples from the literature to support the points you are making.
