Assignment Task: Issues and Trends in Healthcare
Ethical and Bioethical Issues in Nursing
All nurses will be faced with ethical and bioethical issues in their professional nursing practice. In this paper you will identify ethical theories and principles and identify how they will serve as a basis for your practice. The student will discuss moral theory and development, and how this will impact your professional practice. The student will identify a common ethical dilemma in their chosen area of nursing and discuss ethical principles that will guide their care and how they will use moral integrity to work within these often-complicated scenarios. Need Assignment Help?
This assignment is an APA paper and should include:
Title page- see example provided in Modules.
Headings per APA
Heading #1 -
- Should be the title of your paper that is listed on the Title Page (bold print and centered).
- Introduction paragraph with a purpose statement.
Heading #2 - Ethical Theory - Utilitarianism and Deontology
- Define and apply with clinical examples the ethical theories of Utilitarianism and Deontology.
- Reference and discuss The American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics for Nurses and how it guide the professional nursing practice.
Heading #3 - Ethical Principles - Autonomy, Beneficence and Nonmaleficence, Veracity
- Discuss each ethical principle and
- Give a clinical example of how you have seen each principle used in your most recent clinical setting or your place of employment.
Heading #4 - Ethical Decision-Making Model - Situation Assessment Procedure - found in Cherry and Jacobs, Chapter 9.
- Using this model apply the steps to a common ethical issue in nursing you have chosen for your practice.
- In this section of the paper be sure to answer all the questions posed by the model.
Heading #5 - Reflection -
- Overall, what did you learn about ethics in nursing?
- What is your strategy to improve your skills/competencies for similar ethical dilemmas?
- Explain how this learning will impact your future practice.
Heading #6- Conclusion -
- Restate your topic and why it is important.
- Address opposing viewpoints and explain why readers should align with your position,
- Call for action or overview future research possibilities.
Reference page -
- For this assignment you will need Cherry and Jacobs and a peer reviewed reference for each section. You will need to have five references for this assignment (no more, no less).
- References must be cited in the body of the paper per APA guidelines.
- All references should be current (within five years).
- Using the APA 7th edition Common Reference Examples Guide (can be found in the APA resources in the modules section) or the 7th edition APA manual, identify the type of reference you are using and list it in red beneath your reference on the reference list. Do this for each of your three references. If you cannot find the format for the reference you have chosen, do not use the reference. All references must have an APA identifier to receive all points for the reference section of your paper.
Example:
Cherry, B. & Jacob, S. (2019). Contemporary nursing: Issues, trends, and management.
Elsevier.
Authored Book (Section 10.2)
This paper should be a minimum of 1500 words and a maximum of 1700 words.