As a busy adult learner, it can be a challenge to find time to reflect fully on what you studied, wrote and discussed at the end of each unit. A Course Reflection Journal is integrated directly into this course to support you in taking a valuable,
As a busy adult learner, it can be a challenge to find time to reflect fully on what you studied, wrote and discussed at the end of each unit. A Course Reflection Journal is integrated directly into this course to support you in taking a valuable, reflective pause at the end of each learning unit, prior to quickly moving on to new material.
Each week, you will reflect back on your most valuable takeaway, identify immediate or future applicability of your learning to your career, and identify what you would like to investigate further. You will also assemble a list of resources and create a personal resource repository for future use in your courses and career.
You will begin your entries in your journal this week in Unit 1. It is imperative that you wait until the end of each week to complete your entries, as they are based on what you have learned and experienced in your studies and research and on your participation in the discussions for the specific unit.
When you are ready, open your Course Reflection Journal (linked in the Resources) to begin your work. Simply click on the Save button throughout the week to save the draft work on your entries. At the end of the week, when your entries are complete, click on the Preview Unit Report button. Review your work and click on the Close and Save for Further Editing button if you still want to go back and make changes. If you are satisfied with your work, click on the Generate PDF for Assignment Submission button. Save the PDF and submit it as an attachment for your assignment for the current Unit.
Note: In Unit 10 you will Click on the Preview Full Report button to submit the entire journal as your U10a1.
Please refer to the Course Project Portfolio description to understand how your journal is part of the project. Review the Course Reflection Journal Scoring Guide as well as the Course Reflection Journal Presentation (linked in the Resources) to understand how your entries will be graded.
Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)
Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.
Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.
Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 2 Assignment
Course Reflection Journal
This week, please complete the Unit 2 entry in your journal, based on your studies, research, and discussions with your peers. Review the Course Reflection Journal Scoring Guide as well as the Course Reflection Journal Presentation (linked in the Resources) to understand how your entries will be graded.
Follow the directions in the journal to complete your entry, download it, and submit it in this unit assignment.
Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)
Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.
Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.
Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 3 Assignment
This week, please complete the Unit 3 entry in your journal, based on your studies, research, and discussions with your peers. Review the Course Reflection Journal Scoring Guide as well as the Course Reflection Journal Presentation (linked in the Resources) to understand how your entries will be graded.
Follow the directions in the journal to complete your entry, download it, and submit it in this unit assignment.
Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)
Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.
Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.
Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 4 Assignment
This week, please complete the Unit 4 entry in your journal, based on your studies, research, and discussions with your peers. Review the Course Reflection Journal Scoring Guide as well as the Course Reflection Journal Presentation (linked in the Resources) to understand how your entries will be graded.
Follow the directions in the journal to complete your entry, download it, and submit it in this unit assignment.
Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)
Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.
Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.
Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 5 Assignment
This week, please complete the Unit 5 entry in your journal, based on your studies, research, and discussions with your peers. Review the Course Reflection Journal Scoring Guide as well as the Course Reflection Journal Presentation (linked in the Resources) to understand how your entries will be graded.
Follow the directions in the journal to complete your entry, download it, and submit it in this unit assignment.
Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)
Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.
Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.
Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 6 Assignment
This week, please complete the Unit 6 entry in your journal, based on your studies, research, and discussions with your peers. Review the Course Reflection Journal Scoring Guide as well as the Course Reflection Journal Presentation (linked in the Resources) to understand how your entries will be graded.
Follow the directions in the journal to complete your entry, download it, and submit it in this unit assignment.
Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)
Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.
Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.
Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 7 Assignment
This week, please complete the Unit 7 entry in your journal, based on your studies, research, and discussions with your peers. Review the Course Reflection Journal Scoring Guide as well as the Course Reflection Journal Presentation (linked in the Resources) to understand how your entries will be graded.
Follow the directions in the journal to complete your entry, download it, and submit it in this unit assignment.
Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)
Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.
Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.
Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 8 Assignment
This week, please complete the Unit 8 entry in your journal, based on your studies, research, and discussions with your peers. Review the Course Reflection Journal Scoring Guide as well as the Course Reflection Journal Presentation (linked in the Resources) to understand how your entries will be graded.
Follow the directions in the journal to complete your entry, download it, and submit it in this unit assignment.
Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)
Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.
Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.
Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 9 Assignment
This week, please complete the Unit 9 entry in your journal, based on your studies, research, and discussions with your peers. Review the Course Reflection Journal Scoring Guide as well as the Course Reflection Journal Presentation (linked in the Resources) to understand how your entries will be graded.
Follow the directions in the journal to complete your entry, download it, and submit it in this unit assignment.
Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)
Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.
Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.
Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 10 Assignment
Welcome to the completion of your Course Refection Journal.
This week, please complete the final, Unit 10, entry in your journal, based on your studies, research, and discussions with your peers. Review the Course Reflection Journal Scoring Guide as well as the Course Reflection Journal Presentation (linked in the Resources) to understand how your entries will be graded.
Follow the directions in the journal to complete and submit your entries. When you save your Unit 10 entries, all of your journal pages will be compiled into one document. Submit this document as your Unit 10 assignment. Please take the time to review your completed journal to appreciate your overall growth and experience regarding ethics and health care management during the past 10 weeks.
Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save this learning activity to your ePortfolio. Keep your journal handy to refer back to ideas and resources you have saved for use in your future courses and in your career.
Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)
Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.
Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 6 Assignment
Informational Interview Report
Your Informational Interview Report serves as a component of your Course Project Portfolio.
The interview you performed was described earlier as an informal conversation with a health care manager who is willing to share personal and professional expertise, knowledge, and perspective on ethical challenges. Your goal was to obtain an insider’s view on current ethical issues presented in the health care field and increase your understanding of how managers utilize ethical principles and strategic efforts to prevent and address them.
Now that your interview has been completed, you will share your experience, evaluations, and application to ethical concepts and principles.
Preparation
In addition to these instructions, utilize the following to complete your work.
Written work completed in your Unit 3 discussion, Preparing for Your Informational Interview Report.
Interview notes.
Informational Interview Report Scoring Guide.
Course study materials.
Course Reflection Journal entries.
Internet and Capella library research.
Informational Interview Report Template.
Assignment Components
To begin your paper, identify and describe the sector of the health care industry you have chosen to explore. Describe the organization, facility, or department chosen, its stated mission and goals, and provide context regarding the community or population it serves.
Introduce your interviewee. Briefly describe the background that brought this person to his or her current position. Explain the description and expectations of this person’s management role. Include information the professional shared regarding how personal moral values, membership in professional organizations, and continuing education guide and support personal efforts in ethical management practice.
Describe an ethical challenge experienced by your interviewee in his or her organization, facility, or department, and analyze the approach taken to resolve it. If there is not a detailed example of a problem available, base your work on measures taken to prevent a specific major ethical issue, and analyze why the current approach is successful.
Discuss and evaluate the information gathered regarding the ethical problem. Include the following:
Describe how formal policies, processes, teams, and individuals were utilized in addressing or proactively avoiding the ethical problem.
Identify and explain the influence and role of external regulatory policies, and regulations in addressing or preventing the ethical issue (such as Joint Commission, HIPAA, et cetera).
Describe how specific external forces influenced the resolution or prevention of the ethical issue.
Describe how internal organizational factors influenced the resolution of the ethical issue.
Identify and apply the ethical principles and theories related to the ethical issue and the management approach taken.
Conclude your paper by sharing personal insights gained from the informational interview experience. Identify tools, knowledge, skills, or awareness gained for use and success in your personal ethical management practice.
A template, available in the Resources, is provided to assist you in your success with this assignment.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 8 Assignment
Ethical Case Study Evaluation
For this assignment, you will evaluate a case study based on a hypothetical scenario involving health care management, patient care, and end-of-life considerations. You will utilize a formal decision-making process to evaluate this scenario based on the concepts and principles you have studied in this course and perhaps your own personal and career experiences.
Preparation
Read the Case Study Scenario (linked in the Resources) to complete this assignment.
Review the Ethical Case Study Evaluation Scoring Guide prior to beginning your work.
A template is provided in the Resources for this assignment.
Scenario and Challenges
Jenny Abrams, the health care administrator at Brookside Hospital, is faced with a serious managerial challenge in the Case Study Scenario:
Ms. Abrams must initially use excellent communication, investigative, critical thinking and decision-making skills to immediately assess and deal with the situation she is facing in her office when she arrives.
She will then need to investigate and evaluate the validity of the claims related to medical procedures performed and ethical behavior of staff to appropriately address them with the family and within her facility.
Finally, as an ethically minded manager and individual, Ms. Abrams must be sure that Brookside Hospital provides Mr. Nichols and his family the discharge and end-of-life support they require.
Imagine yourself in Ms. Abrams’s position, and work through the process outlined below.
Steps
For your evaluation of this case study, use tools and knowledge gained in your studies to gather and evaluate relevant facts, and recommend actions for Ms. Abrams to take to address the situation in an ethical manner.
Refer directly to Step 1: Gather the Facts, on pages 111–113 in the Ethics and Professionalism for Healthcare Managers text to perform and discuss the fact-gathering tasks for this section of the case study.
Clearly define the problem.
Determine whether the decision involves an ethical conflict.
Ascertain boundaries or ownership of the situation or problem.
Determine the internal and external stakeholders.
Identify the person who should be the decision maker.
Gather data.
Identify and list the ethical principles and the non-moral concerns of the situation or problem.
Identify several possible options.
Helpful Resources and Tips
Please refer to the BUS4121 Library Guide for valuable resource material on writing, referencing, and researching on the Internet and in the Capella library.
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