Write a 4–6 page analysis of your previously selected current problem or issue in healthcare, including a proposed solution and possible ethical implications.
In your healthcare 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 the real-world problem you’ve selected.
For this assessment, you will analyze the same current healthcare problem or issue topic area you selected for Assessments 2 and 3. To explore the chosen topic, use the first four topics of the Socratic Problem-Solving Approach for critical thinking.
- Start by defining the healthcare problem or issue based on the selected healthcare topic.
- Provide details about the problems or issues that are part of the chosen topic, and identify causes for the problems or issues.
- Identify at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles about the topic you are discussing by using articles you found for Assessment 2 or by searching the Capella library using the BSN Program Library Research Guide.
- Use scholarly information to explain a healthcare problem or issue related to your selected topic.
- Cite credible, relevant sources to validate and reinforce the information used to explain the healthcare topic.
- Analyze the problem or issue.
- Describe the setting or context for the problem or issue.
- Describe the reasons that make the problem or issue important to you.
- Identify groups of people affected by the problem or issue.
- Compare and contrast potential solutions for the problem or issue.
- Describe potential solutions.
- Compare and contrast your opinion with other opinions you find in sources from the Capella library.
- Provide the pros and cons for one of the solutions you are proposing.
- Explain how the ethical principles (beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice) apply if your potential solution were implemented.
- Describe what would be necessary to implement the proposed solution.
- Explain what ethical principles need to be considered (beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice) and how they apply if your potential solution were implemented. How would bias need to be considered?
- Provide examples from the literature to support the points you are making.
- Explain how the solution you present will benefit or help to improve your selected topic as it relates to at least one of the Four Spheres of Care:
- Wellness, Disease Prevention.
- Chronic Disease Management.
- Regenerative/Restorative Care.
- Hospice and Palliative Care.
Organize your paper using the following structure and headings:
- Title page. (A separate page.)
- Introduction. (A one-paragraph statement about the purpose of the paper.)
- Identify the elements of the problem, issue, or question.
- Analyze, define, and frame the problem, issue, or question.
- Consider solutions, responses, or answers.
- Choose a solution, response, or answer.
- Implementation of the potential solution.
- Conclusion. (One paragraph.)
Your paper should meet the following requirements:
- Length: Include at least 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages, in addition to the title page and reference page.
- Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12 point.
- Writing: Produce text with minimal grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
- Sources: Integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
- References: Use at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles and three in-text citations within the paper. Visit Evidence and APA if needed. Use scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles published during the past 3–5 years that relate to your topic. Visit BSN Program Library Research Guide for help with research.
Example assessment: You may use the Assessment 5 Example [PDF] to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.
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 healthcare.
- Use scholarly information to explain a healthcare problem or issue.
- Competency 2: Apply scholarly information through critical thinking to solve problems in the field of healthcare.
- Analyze a healthcare problem or issue.
- Compare and contrast potential solutions for a problem or issue.
- Explain how a presented solution will benefit or help to improve a selected healthcare topic or issue as it relates to at least one of the Four Spheres of Care.
- Competency 3: Apply ethical principles and academic standards to the study of healthcare.
- Explain the ethical principles (beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice) that need to be considered if a potential solution were implemented.
- Competency 5: Write for a specific audience, in an appropriate tone and style, in accordance with Capella writing standards.
- Produce text with minimal grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
- Integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
Scoring Guide
Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.
Use scholarly information to explain a healthcare problem or issue.
Distinguished
Uses relevant scholarly information to explain a healthcare problem or issue and the importance of the problem.
Proficient
Uses scholarly information to explain a healthcare problem or issue.
Basic
Identifies scholarly information that could explain a healthcare problem or issue.
Non Performance
Does not use scholarly information to explain a healthcare problem or issue.
Analyze a healthcare problem or issue.
Distinguished
Analyzes the healthcare problem or issue, including areas of uncertainty or that need further research.
Proficient
Analyzes a healthcare problem or issue.
Basic
Describes a healthcare problem or issue.
Non Performance
Does not analyze a healthcare problem or issue.
Compare and contrast potential solutions for a problem or issue.
Distinguished
Compares and contrasts potential solutions for a problem or issue, including factors that would contribute to or hinder the success of implementing the solutions.
Proficient
Compares and contrasts potential solutions for a problem or issue.
Basic
Describes a potential solution for a problem or issue.
Non Performance
Does not compare and contrast potential solutions for a problem or issue.
Explain the ethical principles (beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice) that need to be considered if a potential solution were implemented.
Distinguished
Explains the ethical principles (beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice) that need to be considered if a potential solution were implemented, providing examples from the readings.
Proficient
Explains the ethical principles (beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice) that need to be considered if a potential solution were implemented.
Basic
Mentions ethical principles (beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice) that need to be considered if a potential solution were implemented, but does not explain them.
Non Performance
Does not explain the ethical principles (beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice) that need to be considered if a potential solution were implemented.
Explain how a presented solution will benefit or help to improve a selected healthcare topic or issue as it relates to at least one of the Four Spheres of Care.
Distinguished
Explains how a presented solution will benefit or help to improve a selected topic or issue as it relates to multiple spheres of care.
Proficient
Explains how a presented solution will benefit or help to improve a selected topic or issue as it relates to at least one of the Four Spheres of Care.
Basic
Explains a presented solution.
Non Performance
Does not explain how a presented solution will benefit or help to improve a selected topic or issue as it relates to at least one of the Four Spheres of Care.
Produce text with minimal grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
Distinguished
Produces text free of grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
Proficient
Produces text with minimal grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
Basic
Produces text with some grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors, making text difficult to follow at times.
Non Performance
Produces text with significant grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors, making text difficult to follow.
Integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
Distinguished
Integrates into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style without errors and uses current reference sources.
Proficient
Integrates into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
Basic
Integrates into text mostly appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style, but there are lapses in style use.
Non Performance
Does not integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.