Asses4

Write a 4-6 page analysis of a current problem or issue in health care, including a proposed solution and possible ethical implications.

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Introduction 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.

1. Describe the health care problem or issue you selected for use in Assessment 2 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. ■ Use scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles

published during the past 3–5 years that relate to your topic ■ 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.

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