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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Scoring Guide
