Assignment: Analyzing an Ethical Decision
Assignment: Analyzing an Ethical Decision
Question Description
Assignment: Practicum Journal Entry: Analyzing an Ethical Decision
As a PMHNP, you will be faced with a variety of situations that will require you to make sound judgments and practice decisions for the safety and well-being of individuals, families, and communities. There may not be a simple solution to the problem, but your ethical decisions must be based on evidence-based practice and what is good, right, and beneficial for patients. You will encounter patients who do not share your values, but you must remain professional and unbiased in the care you provide to all patients, regardless of socioeconomic or ethnic/racial background. You must be prepared to analyze ethical situations critically and devise an appropriate course of action. For this Assignment, you will conduct a literature review to learn about the various ethical quandaries that PMHNPs face and how these issues are typically addressed in your state.
Objectives of Learning
The students will:
Examine the most important ethical issues in psychiatric mental health practice.
Contrast ethical quandaries with state health laws and regulations.
Examine ethical decision-making procedures.
To get ready:
Examine the literature for moral/ethical issues that a PMHNP may face.
Choose one of the articles you discovered that was published within the last 5 years to serve as the focal point for this assignment.
Create a 2-page paper that includes the following:
Summarize the article’s moral/ethical issue (no more than 1 paragraph).
Describe the moral and ethical quandaries that surround the issue.
Analyze the ethical issue and compare it to your state’s health laws and regulations. (Maryland)
Outline the ethical decision-making process you would use to address this ethical quandary.
You should proofread your paper. However, do not rely solely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part, and your grade will suffer as a result. Papers with a high number of misspelled words and grammatical errors will be penalized. Before submitting your paper, go over it in silence and then aloud, and make any necessary changes. It is often beneficial to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Uncorrected mistakes are preferable to handwritten corrections.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point typeface (10 to 12 characters per inch). Smaller or compressed type, as well as papers with narrow margins or single spacing, are difficult to read. It is preferable to allow your essay to exceed the recommended number of pages rather than attempting to compress it into fewer pages.
Large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are also unacceptable, waste trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced, and have a one-inch margin on all four sides of each page. When submitting hard copies, use white paper and print with dark ink. It will be difficult to follow your argument if it is difficult to read your essay.