Homework: Analyze a Current Healthcare Problem or Issue
Length: 4 to 6 pages.
Write a 4 to 6 pages analysis of a current problem or issue in health care, including a proposed solution and possible ethical implications.
Introduction
In your health care career, you will be confronted with many problems that demand a solution. By using research skills, you can learn what others are doing and saying about similar problems. Then you can analyze the problem and the people and systems it affects. You can examine potential solutions and their ramifications. This homework allows you to practice this approach with a real-world problem.
Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this homework, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following homework scoring guide criteria:
1) 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.
2) 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.
3) 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.
4) Competency 4: Write for a specific audience, in appropriate tone and style, in accordance with Capella's writing standards.
Instructions
A. Describe the health care problem or issue you selected for use in Homework 2 (from the Homework 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 Homework 2.
• Identify possible causes for the problem or issue.
B. 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.
o You may find the How Do I Find Peer-Reviewed Articles? library guide helpful in locating appropriate references.
o You may use articles you found while working on Homework 2 or you may search the Capella library for other articles.
o 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:
o Assess the credibility of the information sources.
o Assess the relevance of the information sources.
C. 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.
D. Discuss potential solutions for the health care problem or issue.
• Describe what would be required to implement a solution.
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• Provide the pros and cons for one of the solutions you are proposing.
E. 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.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the homework, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.