Evaluating a Bioethical Health Care Issue Facing Healthcare

Identifying Bioethical Issues This activity will have you identify and evaluate a bioethical issue facing healthcare administrations and discuss how you would handle the issue. Unit Outcomes addressed in this Assignment: • Examine bioethical issues in healthcare. Course Outcomes addressed in this Assignment: HA405-2: Explain a bioethical issue within a healthcare facility. Instructions: In this unit, you will identify and evaluate one bioethical health care issue facing healthcare administrators. In a 1-page summary, you will identify bioethical issues and discuss how you would effectively and ethically handle the issues in your facility. Include two (2) academic references and submit your assignment in APA format. Requirements: • • • • Choose one (1) bioethical issue to research. (for example, Euthanasia, End-of-life care, Eugenics, Medical resource allocation, Stem Cells, Substance abuse – (excessive opioid scripting), Genetic manipulation, Cloning, etc.). Identify the issue and its implications and status in health care. Discuss how you would effectively and ethically handle the issue in your facility as the administrator. Include two (2) academic references formatted in APA. Unit 4 • • • Lipman, H. I., & Powell, T. (2016). Process matters: Notes on bioethics consultation. AMA Journal Of Ethics, 18(5), 485-492. doi:10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.5.ecas2-1605 Solomon, M. Z. (2016). What Is bioethics worth? Hastings Center Report, 46(5), 44-46. doi:10.1002/hast.619 Vogelstein, E. (2015). The nature and value of bioethics expertise. Bioethics, 29(5), 324-333. doi:10.1111/bioe.12114 • Web Reading • Planetree Information • www.planetree.org • Today there is an effort among healthcare facilities to move toward more patientcentered care. The Planetree Model was created because the key features in the model are founded in good ethical and business practice. These keys will assist your facility in making the patient the center of care in a time when resources are already strained and change is an almost daily event. • Ethical Words of Wisdom • “Good quality healthcare is cheap; it’s poor quality healthcare that is expensive.” – Joe L. Griffith • Optional Content: • The following are websites that provide additional information about areas in Unit 4. • Ethics Resources • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality • Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations • Institute for Healthcare Improvement • Planetree Information