Describe the health care problem or issue you selected for use in Assessment 2 and provide details about it.

Write a 4-6 page analysis of a current problem or issue in health care, including a proposed solution and possible ethical implications.

Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. At a minimum, be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

1. Describe the healthcare problem or issue you selected for use in Assessment 2 and provide details about it.
   o Explore your chosen topic. For this, you should use the first four steps of the Socratic Problem-Solving Approach to aid your critical thinking. This approach was introduced in Assessment 2.
   o Identify possible causes for the problem or issue.
2. Use scholarly information to describe and explain the health care problem or issue and identify possible causes for it.
   o Identify at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles about the topic.
    You may find the How Do I Find Peer-Reviewed Articles? library guide helpful in locating appropriate references.
    You may use articles you found while working on Assessment 2 or you may search the library for other articles.
    You may find the applicable Undergraduate Library Research Guide helpful in your search.
   o Review the Think Critically About Source Quality to help you complete the following:
    Assess the credibility of the information sources.
    Assess the relevance of the information sources.
3. Analyze the health care problem or issue.
   o Describe the setting or context for the problem or issue.
   o Describe why the problem or issue is important to you.
   o Identify groups of people affected by the problem or issue.
   o Provide examples that support your analysis of the problem or issue.
4. Discuss potential solutions for the health care problem or issue.
   o Describe what would be required to implement a solution.
   o Describe the potential consequences of ignoring the problem or issue.
   o Provide the pros and cons for one of the solutions you are proposing.
5. Explain the ethical principles (Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, Autonomy, and Justice) if the potential solution was implemented.
   o Describe what would be necessary to implement the proposed solution.
   o Explain the ethical principles that need to be considered (Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, Autonomy, and Justice) if the potential solution is implemented.
   o Provide examples from the literature to support the points you are making.
   Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
   • Length: 4–6 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and reference page.
   • Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 points.
   • APA tutorial: Use the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX] for guidance.
   • Written communication: Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
   • Using outside sources: Integrate information from outside sources into academic writing by appropriately quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing, following APA style.
   • References: Integrate information from outside sources to include at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles and three in-text citations within the paper.
   • APA format: Follow current APA guidelines for in-text citations of outside sources in the body of your paper and also on the reference page.
   Organize your paper using the following structure and headings:
   • Title page. A separate page.
   • Introduction. A brief one-paragraph statement about the purpose of the paper.
   • Elements of the problem/issue. Identify the elements of the problem or issue or question.
   • Analysis. Analyze, define, and frame the problem or issue.
   • Considering options. Consider solutions, responses, or answers.
   • Solution. Choose a solution, response, or answer.
   • Ethical implications. Ethical implications of implementing the solution.
   • Implementation. Implementation of the potential solution.
   • Conclusion. One paragraph.