Professional Development Exercises: Nursing Ethics
Professional Development Exercises :
- Describe why there is such a struggle when addressing end-of-life issues
- What are the differences between allowing a patient to die and physician-assisted suicide?
- Discuss the controversy that can occur when considering a patient’s right to know whether a caregiver has AIDS and the caregiver’s right to privacy and confidentiality.
- Describe the distinctions among wrongful birth, wrongful life, and wrongful conception. Discuss the moral dilemmas of these concepts
- Discuss the arguments for and against partial birth abortions
- Discuss why there is controversy over genetic markers and stem cell research
Please combine all of these responses into a single Microsoft Word document for submission
Please submit only complete assignments (not partial or “draft” assignments).
Submit only the assignments corresponding to the module in this section.
You are not required to adhere to the 500-1000 word count for each of the responses, but please be thorough in your responses so that you adequately address all aspects of each question.
1. The paper should be written in APA format and not question and answer form.
2. Please maintain your TurnIt In similarity index at 0% as indicated in the getting started page.
3. Avoid writing in the first or second person (e.g. I, we, you, us). Speak in the third person form (e.g. he, him, his, himself, she, her, hers, herself, it, its, itself, they, them, their, theirs, and themselves). If you need to refer to yourself, use “the author”
4. References must be scholarly peer reviewed articles. All references, need to be within 5 years (so nothing later than 2013) as indicated in the Getting Started page tab.
5. Avoid using references from .com sites because they are typically privately owned and have biased. Use references from .edu (education), .gov (government), or .org (non-profit organization) sites.
6. In text citations. Please review you create in text citations.
Paraphrasing: Medical surgical nurses possess skills required in specialty departments (Smith, Jones, & Johson, 2015).
Direct quote: “Medical surgical nurses possess skills required in specialty department” (Smith, Jones, & Johnson, 2015, p. 200).
Direct quote: A study by Smith, Jones, and Johnson (2015) found that “medical surgical nurses possess skills required in specialty department” (p.123).
7. The first time you use an acronym write out what each letter of it stands for and put the initials in parentheses. For example,
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
8. Make your sentences succinct and too the point. Try to limit it to approximately 20 words, otherwise it makes it convoluted for your reader.
9. Do not start you sentence with a demonstrative pronoun (This, That, These, Those). Demonstrative pronouns are typically reserved for the spoken language when the person speaking can gesture toward the object they are talking about.
10. Avoid starting a sentence with “it” because emphasis is placed on that word, and you message loses vividness.
11. Page requirements: I believe you can cover the topics sufficiently with a minimum of 5 pages and a maximum of 7 pages EXCLUDING your reference page.
