1. Introduction with a thesis statement 

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1. Introduction with a thesis statement

2. Provide a brief history of your culture

3. Explain how your chosen culture is represented in the United States

4. Is your culture individualistic or collectivistic? Provide at least one example

5. What are some of the artistic (art, music, architecture, dance) contributions of your culture?

6. What are some values of your culture? Provide at least three examples

7. Discuss your culture’s religion(s)? Include name and basic belief system of at least one of the major faiths

8. What are some of the sex and gender role differences in your culture? Provide at least three examples

9. Discuss what we would need to know to acculturate into your culture (if a past one, what would we need to do for preparing for our time machine to fit in). Provide at least one concrete suggestion

10. Conclusion

· Identify and describe at least two competing needs impacting your selected healthcare issue/stressor.

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· Identify and describe at least two competing needs impacting your selected healthcare issue/stressor.

· Describe a relevant policy or practice in your organization that may influence your selected healthcare issue/stressor.

· Critique the policy for ethical considerations, and explain the policy’s strengths and challenges in promoting ethics.

· Recommend one or more policy or practice changes designed to balance the competing needs of resources, workers, and patients, while addressing any ethical shortcomings of the existing policies. Be specific and provide examples.

· Cite evidence that informs the healthcare issue/stressor and/or the policies, and provide two scholarly resources in support of your policy or practice recommendations.

 How often do you engage with or witness death in your work? How has this experience or the lack of it shaped your view of death? Has it gotten easier or harder for you to accept the fact of death? As you explain, include your clinical specialty. 

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 How often do you engage with or witness death in your work? How has this experience or the lack of it shaped your view of death? Has it gotten easier or harder for you to accept the fact of death? As you explain, include your clinical specialty.

Briefly and generally explain the policy or regulation you selected.

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  • Briefly and generally explain the policy or regulation you selected.
  • Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on system implementation.
  • Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on clinical care, patient/provider interactions, and workflow.
  • Highlight organizational policies and procedures that are/will be in place at your healthcare organization to address the policy or regulation you selected. Be specific.

 

 Describe the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected and its impact on your organization. Use organizational data to quantify the impact (if necessary, seek assistance from leadership or appropriate stakeholders in your organization).

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Describe the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected and its impact on your organization. Use organizational data to quantify the impact (if necessary, seek assistance from leadership or appropriate stakeholders in your organization).

· Provide a brief summary of the two articles you reviewed from outside resources on the national healthcare issue/stressor. Explain how the healthcare issue/stressor is being addressed in other organizations.

· Summarize the strategies used to address the organizational impact of national healthcare issues/stressors presented in the scholarly resources you selected. Explain how they may impact your organization both positively and negatively. Be specific and provide examples.

Demonstration of Proficiency

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Should patients be legally allowed to have help in this endeavor? If suicide itself is not morally wrong, at least in cases like these, is it wrong for another person to directly help bring about the patient’s death? Is it wrong for doctors, a role we naturally associate with healing and the promotion of life, to use their medical expertise to deliberately end a patient’s life if the patient wants this?
Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

  • Competency 1: Articulate ethical issues in health care.
    • Articulate the moral issues associated with limiting life support.
  • Competency 2: Apply sound ethical thinking related to a health care issue.
    • Demonstrate sound ethical thinking and relevant ethical principles when considering limiting life support.
    • Explain important considerations that arise when contemplating limiting life support.
  • Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others and is consistent with health care professionals.
    • Exhibit proficiency in clear and effective academic writing skills.
  • Preparation
  • Case Study: Mr. Martinez.                              Mr. Martinez was a seventy-five-year-old chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patient. He was in the hospital because of an upper respiratory tract infection. He and his wife had requested that CPR not be performed should he require it. A DNR order was written in the charts. In his room on the third floor, he was being maintained with antibiotics, fluids, and oxygen and seemed to be doing better. However, Mr. Martinez’s oxygen was inadvertently turned up, and this caused him to go into respiratory failure. When found by the therapist, he was in terrible distress and lay gasping in his bed.
  • This media piece provides the context for this assessment; make sure you have reviewed the case study thoroughly.
    Additionally, it may be useful to think through the following issues as they relate to Mr. Martinez’s case:
  • Should Mr. Martinez be transferred to intensive care, where his respiratory failure can be treated by a ventilator, and by CPR if necessary, and his oxygen level can be monitored?
    • What are the key ethical issues or models at play in this case study?
    • What are the key end-of-life issues at play in this case study?
    • How can an understanding of models and best-practice help to guide health care practitioners to make ethical and legal decisions?
  • Instructions
    In a 2–3 page analysis of the case study, address the following:
  • The patient’s directives.
  • The patient’s quality of life.
  • The family’s stated preferences.
  • The moral issues associated with limiting life support.
  • The ethical principles most relevant to reaching an ethically sound decision.
  • Important considerations such as implications, justifications, and any conflicts of interest that might arise because of the patient’s respiratory failure.