Description
follow scoring guide for best possible score. 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
In your health care career, you will be confronted with many problems that demand a solution. By using research skills, you can learn what others are doing and saying about similar problems. Then, you can analyze the problem and the people and systems it affects. You can also examine potential solutions and their ramifications. This assessment allows you to practice this approach with a real-world problem.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 4 Example [PDF] Download Assessment 4 Example [PDF].
Additional Requirements
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
Length: 4–6 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and reference page.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
APA tutorial: Use the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX] for guidance.
Written communication: Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
Using outside sources: Integrate information from outside sources into academic writing by appropriately quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing, following APA style.
References: Integrate information from outside sources to include at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles and three in-text citations within the paper.
APA format: Follow current APA guidelines for in-text citations of outside sources in the body of your paper and also on the reference page.
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.
Competencies Measured:
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Apply information literacy and library research skills to obtain scholarly information in the field of health care.
Use scholarly information to describe and explain a health care problem or issue and identify possible causes for it.
Competency 2: Apply scholarly information through critical thinking to solve problems in the field of health care.
Analyze a health care problem or issue by describing the context, explaining why it is important and identifying populations affected by it.
Discuss potential solutions for a health care problem or issue and describe what would be required to implement a solution.
Competency 3: Apply ethical principles and academic standards to the study of health care.
Explain the ethical principles (Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, Autonomy, and Justice) if potential solution was implemented
Competency 4: Write for a specific audience, in appropriate tone and style, in accordance with Capella’s writing standards.
Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
Write following APA style for in-text citations, quotes, and references.
Scoring Guide
Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.
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Analyzing a Current Health Care Problem or Issue Scoring Guide
Analyzing a Current Health Care Problem or Issue Scoring Guide
CRITERIA
NON-PERFORMANCE
BASIC
PROFICIENT
DISTINGUISHED
Use scholarly
information to
explain a health care
problem or issue.
Does not identify
scholarly
information that
could explain a
health care problem
or issue.
Identifies scholarly
information that
could explain a
health care problem
or issue.
Uses scholarly
information to explain a
health care problem or
issue.
Uses relevant scholarly
information to explain a
health care problem or
issue, including the
reasons that the chosen
information helps to
explain a health care
problem or issue.
Analyze the problem
or issue.
Does not identify a
problem or issue.
Identifies a problem
or issue.
Analyzes the problem
or issue.
Analyzes the problem or
issue including
definition, who is
involved, and causes of
the problem or issue.
Discuss potential
solutions for the
problem or issue.
Does not describe a
potential solution for
the problem or
issue.
Describes a
potential solution for
the problem or
issue.
Discusses potential
solutions for the
problem or issue.
Discusses potential
solutions for the problem
or issue, including
potential consequences
for ignoring the issue.
Explain the ethical
principles
(Beneficence,
Nonmaleficence,
Autonomy, and
Justice) if potential
solution was
implemented.
Does not mention
ethical principles if
the potential
solution was
implemented.
Mentions ethical
principles if the
potential solution
was implemented.
Explains the ethical
principles
(Beneficence,
Nonmaleficence,
Autonomy, and Justice)
if potential solution was
implemented.
Explains the ethical
principles if potential
solution was
implemented and
enriches the analysis
with examples from the
readings.
Produce text with
minimal
grammatical, usage,
spelling, and
mechanical errors.
Produces text with
significant
grammatical, usage,
spelling, and
mechanical errors,
making text difficult
to follow.
Produces text with
some grammatical,
usage, spelling, and
mechanical errors,
making text difficult
to follow at times.
Produces text with
minimal grammatical,
usage, spelling, and
mechanical errors.
Produces text free of
grammatical, usage,
spelling, and mechanical
errors.
Integrate into text
appropriate use of
scholarly sources,
evidence, and
citation style.
Does not integrate
into text appropriate
use of scholarly
sources, evidence,
and citation style.
Integrates into text
mostly appropriate
use of scholarly
sources, evidence,
and citation style,
but there are lapses
in style use.
Integrates into text
appropriate use of
scholarly sources,
evidence, and citation
style.
Integrates into text
appropriate use of
scholarly sources,
evidence, and citation
style without errors and
uses current reference
sources.
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