As a nurse you must base your decisions on a set of ethical principles and values. Your decisions must be fair, equitable, and defensible. Nursing has a professional Code of Ethics for Nurses to guide ethical behavior. In this assessment, you wFor this assessment, you will apply the four ethical principles to your healthcare topic (selected in Assessment 2), explain bias as it relates to your topic, and relate at least one of the Four Spheres of Care. Consider the ethical dilemmas healthcare professionals are faced with in your selected topic. Discuss at least one of the Four Spheres of Care and how it is important to understand the ethics of your topic as it relates to the sphere being discussed. Use the Capella University Library to locate at least two academic peer-reviewed journal articles you can use to support your analysis of the situation.
Use the four core principles that healthcare professionals need to know and honor when helping patients:
- Autonomy: To honor the patient’s right to make their own decisions.
- Beneficence: To help the patient advance their own good.
- Nonmaleficence: To do no harm.
- Justice: To be fair and treat like cases alike, which will be used to inform your work.
Select at least one of the Four Spheres of Care and discuss how an understanding of ethics is important as it relates to your chosen Sphere.
- Wellness, Disease Prevention.
- Chronic Disease Management.
- Regenerative/Restorative Care.
- Hospice/Palliative Care.
To complete this assessment, do the following:
- Provide a title slide.
- Identify the topic you selected (the same one you selected for Assessment 2) and briefly summarize the facts surrounding the topic.
- Apply each of the four ethical principles to your chosen healthcare issue or topic.
- Explain on one slide how autonomy plays a role in your healthcare issue.
- Explain on one slide how beneficence plays a role in your healthcare issue.
- Explain on one slide how nonmaleficence plays a role in your healthcare issue.
- Explain on one slide how justice plays a role in your healthcare issue.
- Explain what role bias plays in your topic, and how it relates to the four ethical principles.
- Explain how an understanding of ethics is important to at least one of the Four Spheres of Care as it relates to your healthcare issue or topic (slides eight +). Use a separate slide for each Sphere if you select more than one.
- Include a Conclusion and a Reference slide.
Do NOT use the speaker notes for this assessment. Provide content within each slide only. Make sure to cite references used in the presentation.
Your PowerPoint should meet the following requirements:
- Writing: Produce text with minimal grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
- Your text should be concise.
- Use bulleted or numbered lists.
- Sources: Integrate at least two references within the past 3–5 years into your text using APA in-text citations.
- Length: Include eight to ten slides, which include the title slide and reference slides.
- You will NOT use the speaker notes in this assessment—only provide information on the slides themselves.
- References: Use at least two references within the PowerPoint presentation. Visit the BSN Program Library Research Guide for help with research.
- APA format: Follow current APA guidelines for in-text citation of outside sources in the PowerPoint presentation and also on the reference slide. Visit Evidence and APA for help with APA.
Example assessment: You may use the Assessment 3 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 3: Apply ethical principles and academic standards to the study of healthcare.
- Explain how autonomy plays a role in an identified healthcare issue.
- Explain how beneficence plays a role in an identified healthcare issue.
- Explain how nonmaleficence plays a role in an identified healthcare issue.
- Explain how justice plays a role in an identified healthcare issue.
- Explain how an understanding of ethics is important to at least one of the Four Spheres of Care as it relates to a healthcare issue or topic.
- Competency 4: Describe strategies for overcoming biases in healthcare settings.
- Explain how biases play a role in an identified healthcare issue, and their relationship to the ethical principles.
- Competency 5: Write for a specific audience, in an appropriate tone and style, in accordance with Capella writing standards.
- Integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
- Produce slides that are easy to read and error free.
