This assignment is intended to help you learn to do the following:
Justify recommendations for responding to an ethical dilemma.
Explain ethical decision making approaches and value systems.
Critique ethical decisions and leadership practices.
Explain what you would do in this situation.
Describe one ethical dilemma you struggled with in your life. Put your description in a personal and historical context; in other words, use I statements, and locate yourself within place, time, and relationships. Do not spend more than a page and a half on your description.
Describe a situation in your practice in which an ethical dilemma arose.
Name and describe the ethical concept involved i.e. Paternalism. Review the PowerPoint in your Resource folder for the Ethical Concepts.
Describe the ANA Code of Ethics Provisions linked to your scenario (at least
How did you respond as a nurse to the dilemma in practice?
What can be done to facilitate changes
Define and explain the core ethical dilemma confronting the company, with pertinent facts;
Define the dilemma; be clear as to the company’s situation and its ethical choices – the action the company chose to do and at least one other, different, choice it could have elected instead;
Identify, define and explain an ethical framework that supports, or is illustrated by, the choice/action the company made. In explaining the framework, include an example of how it works in making a decision.
Identify, define and explain a different ethical framework that the company leadership could have utilized in the situation to lead to a different result for the company. Explain specifically how the company effectively could have employed this framework. Also, in explaining the framework include an example of how it works in making a decision.
