Current Healthcare Issues

Instructions

(this is a continuation of the last assignment), but not an annotation. It’s a full paper

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 (from the  Assessment Topic Areas  media piece) and provide details about it.

1. 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.

1. Identify possible causes for the problem or issue.

1. Use scholarly information to describe and explain the health care problem or issue and identify possible causes for it.

2. Identify at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles about the topic.

1. You may find the  How Do I Find Peer-Reviewed Articles?  library guide helpful in locating appropriate references.

1. You may use articles you found while working on Assessment 2 or you may search the Capella library for other articles.

1. 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:

2. Assess the credibility of the information sources.

2. Assess the relevance of the information sources.

· 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.

· 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.

· 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.

Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:

· Assessment 3 Example [PDF] .

Organize your paper using the following structure and headings:

· Title page. A separate page.

· Introduction. A brief one-paragraph statement about the purpose of the paper.

· Elements of the problem/issue. Identify the elements of the problem or issue or question.

· Analysis. Analyze, define, and frame the problem or issue.

· Considering options. Consider solutions, responses, or answers.

· Solution. Choose a solution, response, or answer.

· Ethical implications. Ethical implications of implementing the solution.

· Implementation. Implementation of the potential solution.

· Conclusion. One paragraph.