Week 6 Assignment: Show You Care

 

• Due Feb 14 by 11:59pm
• Points 100
• Submitting a file upload

Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

• Textbook: Chapter 11
• Lesson
• Minimum of 2 scholarly sources

Instructions
Develop, in detail,  a situation in which a health care worker might be confronted with ethical problems related to patients and prescription drug use OR patients in a state of poverty.

• Your scenario must be original to you and this assignment. It cannot be from the discussion boards in this class or any other previous forum.
• Articulate (and then assess) the ethical solutions that can found using “care” (care-based ethics) and “rights” ethics to those problems.
• Assessment must ask if the solutions are flawed, practicable, persuasive, etc.
• What health care technology is involved in the situation?What moral guidelines for using that kind of healthcare technology should be used there? Explore such guidelines also using utilitarianism, Kantian deontology, ethical egoism, or social contract ethics.
• Say how social technologies such as blogs, crowdfunding, online encyclopedias can be used in either case. What moral guidelines for using that kind of healthcare technology should be used there? Develop such guidelines also using utilitarianism, Kantian deontology, ethical egoism, or social contract ethics.

You should not be using any text you used in a discussion board or assignment for this class or any previous class.

Cite the textbook and incorporate outside sources, including citations.

Writing Requirements (APA format)

Length: 3-4 pages (not including title page or references page)

1-inch margins

Double spaced

12-point Times New Roman font

Title page

Reference

s page (minimum of 2 scholarly sources)
Reference

Rachels, S., & Rachels, J. (2019). The elements of moral philosophy (9th ed.). Mcgraw-Hill Education.