Posted: May 1st, 2025

Health & Medical Question

Your final project is a written paper between 6-8 pages in length (not including title and reference pages). Your paper should follow the general format of

APA Guidelines

.  You can submit more than 8 pages; however, I will not read past 8 pages of content so be sure that all required information is included with the page length parameters.

For your final assignment, select an ethical dilemma that impacts healthcare professionals.  You can choose a dilemma that we have discussed in this course, or, one that interests you. If you are having difficulty selecting a topic, please reach out to me.  You will then develop practical solutions and utilize an ethical decision-making framework to address the ethical dilemma you chose. Use the following prompts as a guide:

1. Description/historical overview of the ethical dilemma
2. Description of the healthcare issue that requires tough decisions
3. Overview of how the dilemma may challenge the ethics of healthcare professionals
4. Explanation of both legal/policy and personal decision issues
5. Include questions that come up and help examine the issue from different perspectives (patient, family, health care professional, community, attorney, policymaker, etc.
6. Develop 1-2 practical solution(s) to address the ethical dilemma
7. Identify and explain the concepts for a framework for ethical decision-making that a healthcare professional could use to address the dilemma