Recognize Ethical Dilemmas

For this assignment, students will select an ethical dilemma in healthcare and propose evidence-based intervention(s) for the identified problem. The paper should be a minimum of four to five paragraphs, 500- 800 words in length, and no more than four pages, not including the title and reference pages.

Assignment Details:

Perform the following tasks:

1. Conduct a literature review to identify an ethical dilemma and explore opposing viewpoints.
2. Write an engaging and informative paper that would be helpful for someone in the discipline wanting to learn about ethical dilemmas in healthcare
3. Use the following as a checklist for the scholarly paper:
4. Include the following elements:
5. Title page (APA formatted title page).
6. Introduction
7. Background knowledge-brief summary of current knowledge of ethical dilemma being addressed
8. Discuss the opposing viewpoints
9. Challenges imposed in practice
10. Intext citation present and appropriate
11. Literature Review
12. Literature searches for the topic on the web and in databases are limited to peer-reviewed professional nursing and medical journals, texts, and writings (no older than 5 years).
13. Uses literature to support claims, facts, and statistics.
14. Intext Citation present and appropriate.
15. Proposed Intervention
16. Clearly state proposed intervention(s)
17. Define the ethical considerations or issues relevant to proposed intervention
18. State why the intervention(s) were chosen
19. Describe the implications of the proposed intervention to nursing education and practice.
20. Discussion/Implications/Conclusion
21. All work should have appropriate citations and reference lists.
22. Use Times New Roman, 12 pt. font; 1-inch margins; double-spaced.
23. Consists of 500 to 800 words in length (four to five paragraphs)
24. Citation and references are to follow the APA manual format
25. References should be no more than 5 years old
26. Sources:
27. Wikipedia (or similar sites) is not to be used as a reference
28. Tabers and/or other medical dictionaries or encyclopedias are not to be used as references.
29. Proofread and edit the paper carefully, following the assignment rubric.