Health Care Problem Analysis

Health Care Problem Analysis

Write a 3–5 page paper that analyzes a selected ethical problem in health care. We wrap things up with an assessment that concerns the most urgent problem in the ethics of health care—which you will determine. It may be something that affects the entire country, a specific region, or a community (such as rural or urban communities). You may choose a problem within your own community. It may be something that affects a particular profession or field in health care. Your paper can focus on something you have read about or a firsthand experience as a health care professional or consumer. SHOW LESS Demonstration of Proficiency By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria: Competency 1: Articulate ethical issues in health care. Effectively summarize ethical issues surrounding a health care problem. Competency 2: Apply sound ethical thinking related to a health care issue. Demonstrate sound ethical thinking in applying ethical principles and moral theories to a specific case. Competency 3: Analyze ethical issues associated with patient care from the perspectives of various health care professionals. Analyze an ethical problem from the perspectives of various stakeholders. Assess the policy, legal, and regulatory components to an ethical problem. Competency 4: Explain the conceptual framework that health care leaders use to make ethical decisions. Apply ethical theories and principles to an ethical problem. Develop a solution to an ethical problem based on ethical theories and principles. Competency 5: Apply in text the standard writing conventions for the discipline, including structure, voice, person, tone, and citation formatting. Provide validation and support within written communications by including relevant examples and supporting evidence using APA citations. Write with minimal errors in grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanics. Evaluating Sources In this assessment, you will choose an ethical problem in the health care industry for analysis. Having chosen an issue, you will research it using the Capella library, the Internet, and other sources at your disposal. Make sure to evaluate the reliability of sources that you use, especially those from the Internet. Find out more about evaluating sources by using the following resources: Think Critically About Source Quality. Evaluating Source Quality: Undergraduate-Level Criteria. Special Considerations When Evaluating Web Resources [PDF]. General Education Information Skills Library Guide. SHOW LESS Legal and Ethical Considerations These resources provide insight into policy, legal, and regulatory considerations that must be taken into account when solving an ethical problem. Aulisio, M. P., Moore, J., Blanchard, M., Bailey, M., & Smith, D. (2009). Clinical ethics consultation and ethics integration in an urban public hospital. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 18(4), 371–383. Chassin, M. R. (2013). Improving the quality of health care: Where law, accreditation, and professionalism collide. Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine, 23(2), 395–407. The Joint Commission. (2019). Retrieved from https://www.jointcommission.org/ Review the general information on the scope and purpose of this accrediting organization. The Role of Ethics Committees Most health care organizations today have an ethics committee comprising various staff members and community members. The committee consults with staff and administrators on cases posing particularly challenging ethical dilemmas, but it has other functions as well.

Consider the following: What are the primary duties of an ethics committee? On what types of cases does the committee consult? Does the committee simply determine what should be done in such cases? What kinds of professional roles are represented on ethics committees? What is the value of ethics committees to your professional role? If you have direct experience with ethics committees, what have you observed? Preparation Identify a current issue in health care ethics that you consider urgent. This may be an issue at the national level, in your own community, or anywhere in between. You may focus on something you have read about or know from firsthand experience as a health care professional or consumer. Instructions Write an analysis of a selected ethical problem in health care. You must respond to each of the following criteria. You may choose to respond to any or all of the prompts below each criterion. Effectively summarize ethical issues surrounding a health care problem. What is the problem? Which communities and populations does it affect? What are the ethical issues raised by the problem? Demonstrate sound ethical thinking in applying ethical principles and moral theories to a specific problem. What are the reasons you consider it the most important (or among the most important problems)? What is the cause or causes of this problem? Why does it persist? Apply ethical theories and principles to the selected ethical problem. Which ethical principles (and perhaps moral theories) are most relevant to understanding this problem as an ethical issue? Analyze the ethical problem from the perspectives of various stakeholders. Who are the key stakeholders regarding this problem: the affected health care consumers (patients or clients) and health care professionals (such as doctors, nurses, administrators)? Are there other stakeholders, such as community or government groups? Are there any institutional policies or legal or regulatory considerations that affect the problem? Is there a conflict of interest at the heart of this problem? If so, what is the conflict and who are the stakeholders with competing interests? Assess the policy, legal, and regulatory components to the ethical problem. Which communities or regions does it affect most? Is this a localized problem or a national problem? What legal and regulatory issues have an influence on this problem? Which institutional policies affect this problem? Develop a solution to the ethical problem based on ethical theories and principles. What is the best solution to this problem and why? What are the best resources for solving this problem? How did you make this determination? Submission Requirements