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The Realistic Moral Right to a Basic Minimum of Accessible Health Care
Your assignment is to write a paper of no more than one page in length (and, preferably, no more than one paragraph — see below) that analyzes one specific ethical idea from the current course material. You choose the idea to write about; the point of the assignment is to reflect deeply on a topic that matters to you. If you need help selecting a topic, consult your instructor. In general, a good strategy is to write about whatever you consider to be the most important (or interesting, relevant, controversial, wrongheaded, or strange) point raised in the reading.
What exactly do you need to do?
Review the supplemental materials. Make sure you have read the assignment carefully enough to be able to make a considered judgment about your topic. Remember: Your Reflection Paper must focus on a single topic, so make sure that you have identified just one point to write about.
Review relevant Discussions. Take some good reading notes and try summarizing crucial points concisely and clearly.
Reflect on what you have uncovered, with an eye to forming your own opinion about the text and about the topic. Questions you might want to consider include:
Of the issues discussed in the text, which topics are most important to you?
How much ethical theory can you apply to your own experiences? Explain.
After applying ethical reasoning, would you view the situation differently? If yes, how so?
These reflections will provide the raw material for your Reflection Paper. Your paper should be a carefully crafted distillation and summary of your reflections. You may use up to one page, but a single, superb paragraph is preferable. Here’s one format you can try:
First: A sentence that clearly and concisely identifies your topic. Your sentence should be free of jargon (or it should explain any jargon that is absolutely necessary), and it should immediately get to the heart of the matter. Don’t start with a general introduction to your topic and then take four or five sentences to describe it — your goal is to crystallize the essence of the topic in one excellent sentence.
Concision, clarity, and focus are crucial.
Second: A sentence that explains the philosophical significance of your topic. You can explain how it fits in with the rest of this week’s assignment, how it connects up with other issues we have read about or discussed, how it has affected you or your life or why you find it important or interesting. You may spend several sentences doing each of these things if you wish, but an excellent sentence focusing on just one of them is vastly preferred to a mediocre “kitchen sink” answer.
Third: A sentence that sets out your opinion about this topic. To maintain focus and clarity, it is best to write about just one evaluative point as concisely and carefully as you can. Space may remain to raise a second point, but only do this if you are sure that the rest of your paper is just right.
Fourth: A sentence that provides the ethical reasoning that would support your opinion or stance on the issue: This sentence should clearly demonstrate your understanding of the ethical theory used (utilitarianism, virtue ethics, ethics of care or kantian ethics) to support your position.
Fifth: A statement of conclusion. Your conclusion should tie your thesis (specific issue) to your stance or opinion through the ethical reasoning to conclude an ethical position.
Leave yourself enough time to rewrite, edit, and proofread your paper. (Hint: A sufficiently clear, focused, and concise paper should “sound right” when you read it out loud, and should be reasonably clear to a friend who is not in the class.)
You can see examples of successful and unsuccessful Reflection Papers, as well as instructor comments and suggestions, in the “Guide to Writing a Successful Reflection Paper.”

In your practice as a nurse, you may use procedures and methods that did not necessarily originate in evidence, but instead were derived from informal and unwritten conventions, traditions, and observations. While these techniques may have merit, practices are constantly being updated and contradicted by information from scholarly research studies and professional guidelines. This new information serves as �evidence� for revising practices to improve outcomes across health care.

Based on this evidence, you can formulate a question. In this Discussion, you consider the use of evidence-based practice in your own organization and formulate a question that you will need to answer for your portfolio project. This is called a PICOT question. You will also investigate strategies for overcoming barriers to implementing evidence-based practice (EBP).

To prepare:

Consider a recent clinical experience in which you were providing care for a patient.

Determine the extent to which the care that you provided was based on evidence and research findings or supported only by your organization�s standard procedures. How do you know if the tasks were based on research?

What questions have you thought about in a particular area of care such as a procedure or policy?

Review Chapter 2, pages 36�39 on �Asking Well worded Clinical Questions� in Polit & Beck and consult the resource from the Walden Student Center for Success: Clinical Question Anatomy & examples of PICOT questions (found in this week�s Learning Resources). Formulate your background questions and PICOT question.

Reflect on the barriers that might inhibit the implementation of evidence-based practice in your clinical environment.

Review the article �Adopting Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Decision Making� in this week�s Learning Resources. Select one of the barriers described that is evident in your organization and formulate a plan for overcoming this barrier.

Post on or before Day 3 an evaluation of the use, or lack thereof, of EBP in a recent clinical experience. Identify which aspects of the care delivered, if any, were based on evidence and provide your rationale. List your background questions and PICOT question about this nursing topic. Critique how the policies, procedures, and culture in your organization may hinder or support the adoption of evidence-based practices. Identify the barrier you selected from the article and explain how this barrier could be overcome within your organization.

 

Term paper: choose a topic in medical ETHICS and write a 4-6 page paper with respect to how a physician should handle the issue chosen. Include your thoughts. Reference court cases/literature where applicable. Margins are to be 1inch on all sides, font: new times roman, point – 12, and double-spaced. The reference page is included in the 4-6 total.

 

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages you see associated with annuities vs. conventional investments in securities like stocks. In your opinion, is it better to make investments that generate ongoing annuities payments, to invest in the equity market, or combining the two? Remember to always support your opinion with evidence (citations, references).

 

The rationing of scarce healthcare resources is a subject that is both politically sensitive and raises a number of ethical dilemmas for those charged with making treatment decisions. The ethical dilemma is health care is how to balance the precepts of autonomy, beneficence, and distributive justice. Rationing may affect 3 dimensions of coverage: the share of the population covered; the services covered; and the extent to which services are covered (Teutsch & Rechel, 2012). The U.S. spends 50% more per capita on health care than any other country while achieving worse health than many (Teutsch & Rechel, 2012). Poorly coordinated insurance mechanisms leave 19% of the population uninsured (Teutsch & Rechel, 2012). Until passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in 2010, health care was effectively a privilege, not a right (Teutsch & Rechel, 2012). While PPACA seeks to rectify this, by 2019 five percent of non-elderly U.S. residents will likely remain uninsured (Tuetsch & Rechel, 2012). There are some who believe the U.S. healthcare system is broken and in desperate need of a radical change—the very change that the passage of the ACA represents. It could be argued that the ACA will only worsen the rationing of healthcare services in the United States.

What is your position on this matter? Is the rationing of healthcare a bad thing or a necessary action? What ethical dilemmas might be associated with the rationing of healthcare services and how could they be effectively addressed? Please support your positions/arguments with credible evidence.

In preparing your response, ensure that you properly in-text cite all sources used in the support of your stated positions and the example or examples you chose to utilize. The response needs to be a minimum of 250 words. Also, you will need to include the references at the end of your posting.

Reference;Teutsch, S. & Rechel, B. (2012). Ethics of resource allocation and rationing medical care in a time of fiscal restraint – U.S. and Europe. Public Health Review, 34(1).

 

Identify, reflect and evaluate a personal health behaviour change in respect of the potential and actual benefits, obstacles to this change and supportive mechanisms that have/ could have helped.

 

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target group is older people.A. Use the concepts of nursing theory, research, and practice, based on the foundation of the arts and sciences courses, in the provision of care to diverse clients of all ages.
1. Find access, evaluate, and discuss complementary and alternative medicine information, practices, and promotions available using library databases and the internet.
B. Describe and use appropriate teaching-learning theories to design, implement, and evaluate educational experiences with clients of all ages and abilities.
1. Create a creative complementary and alternative medicine health information, health maintenance, or health promotion semester project in any media/format.
2. Enhance their wellness and health promotion skills through researching, writing, and teaching about a selected topic to peers or selected population.

Bio-mechanics and treatment of the patella instability.
The review paper must be a comprehensive and clear article on the selected topic dealing with Lower Limb or Trunk Injuries from a GENERAL PRACTICE perspective and focusing on the best evidence-based medicine when available. In general, a CORE of 20 to 30 articles should form the basis for the literature review with a concentration on articles from the last 5-7 years published in high quality scientific journals. The critical review must use systematic formatting to structure the paper (using major headings such as introduction, review, discussion, conclusions and references). Correctly labelled illustrations, figures and tables should be used where appropriate.

Write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:

Describe the disorder you selected from the Women’s Health Initiative study found at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/whi/background.htm

Explain the current best practices for assessing and managing this disorder as suggested in the research article you selected.

Compare the best practices presented in the WHI study to the current best practices presented in the article. Explain how the differences in best practices might impact women’s health.

Explain whether you think the current best practices in the article you selected should be used in clinical practice. Support your position with evidence-based research.

Additional insight and resources to incorporate:

For over 20 years, the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study has conducted research trials to examine factors that impact risks and development of conditions that impact women such as heart disease, breast and colorectal cancer, and osteoporotic fractures in postmenopausal women. Health care providers use results from these trials to develop guidelines for delivering care to patients. In your role in clinical settings, you must be familiar with these guidelines, and you must be aware that through clinical practice, guidelines frequently evolve and change. Often, what is considered a best practice today might not be a best practice in the future. For this Assignment, you compare guidelines outlined in the WHI study to current best practices for assessing and managing conditions.

Review the Women’s Health Initiative article in this week’s Learning Resources. Select one disorder presented in this study.

Locate and select a research article that addresses current best practices for assessing and managing the disorder you selected. Be sure that the research article you select is from a reputable source.

Consider the similarities and differences between the best practices presented in the WHI study and the article you selected. Think about the potential impact of differences in best practices on women’s health.

Consider whether the best practices in the article you selected should be used in clinical practice.

Schuiling, K. D., & Likis, F. E. (2013). Women’s gynecologic health (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.

Tharpe, N. L., Farley, C., & Jordan, R. G. (2013). Clinical practice guidelines for midwifery & Women’s health (4th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers.