Assessment 3 Instructions: Analyzing a Current Health Care Problem or Issue

Chosen Topic: COVID 19 or shortage of PPE during the COVID 19 Pandemic.

Instructions

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 health care problem or issue you selected for use in Assessment 2 (from the Assessment Topic Areas | Transcript media piece) and provide details about it.
   1. Explore your chosen topic.  
   1. 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.
   1. Identify at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles about the topic.
      1. You may find the  library guide helpful in locating appropriate references.

• You may find the applicable Undergraduate Library Research Guide helpful in your search.
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    • Assess the credibility of the information sources.
    • Assess the relevance of the information sources.
• Analyze the health care problem or issue.
  • Describe the setting or context for the problems or issues.
  • Describe why the problem or issue is important to you.
  • Identify groups of people affected by the problem or issue.
  • Provide examples that support your analysis of the problem or issue.
• Discuss potential solutions for the health care problem or issue.
  • Describe what would be required to implement a solution.
  • Describe potential consequences of ignoring the problem or issue.
  • Provide the pros and cons for one of the solutions you are proposing.
• Analyze the ethical implications if the potential solution (the one for which you provide pros and cons) were to be implemented.
  • Provide examples from the literature to support the points you are making.
  • Discuss the pros and cons of implementing the proposed solution from an ethical principle point of view.
  • Describe what would be required to implement the proposed solution.

Additional Requirements

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 point.

• 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.

Analyzing a Current Health Care Problem or Issue Scoring Guide

CRITERIA	NON-PERFORMANCE	BASIC	PROFICIENT	DISTINGUISHED
Use scholarly information to describe and explain a health care problem or issue and identify possible causes for it.	Does not use scholarly information to describe or explain a health care problem or issue or identify possible causes for it.	Describes a health care problem or issue but does not explain it, or identifies possible causes for a problem or issues but the identification is incomplete or inaccurate.	Uses scholarly information to describe and explain a health care problem or issue and identify possible causes for it.	Uses scholarly information to describe and explain a health care problem or issue and identify possible causes for it, and indicates which causes are the most likely.
Analyze a health care problem or issue by describing the context, explaining why it is important and identifying populations affected by it.	Does not analyze a health care problem or issue by describing the context, explaining why it is important and identifying populations affected by it.	Identifies a health care problem or issue but does not analyze it.	Analyzes a health care problem or issue by describing the context, explaining why it is important and identifying populations affected by it.	Analyzes a health care problem or issue by describing the context, explaining why it is important and identifying populations affected by it, and provides examples that support the analysis.
Discuss potential solutions for a health care problem or issue and describe what would be required to implement a solution.	Does not discuss potential solutions for a health care problem or issue and describe what would be required to implement a solution.	Incompletely or inaccurately discusses potential solutions for a health care problem or issue and what would be required to implement a solution.	Discusses potential solutions for a health care problem or issue and describes what would be required to implement a solution.	Discusses potential solutions for a health care problem or issue, describes what would be required to implement a solution, and describes potential consequences of ignoring the problem or issue.
Analyze the ethical implications if a potential solution to a health care problem or issue was implemented.	Does not analyze the ethical implications if a potential solution to a health care problem or issue was implemented.	Identifies ethical implications if a potential solution to a health care problem or issue was implemented but does not analyze the implications.	Analyzes the ethical implications if a potential solution to a health care problem or issue was implemented.	Analyzes the ethical implications if a potential solution to a health care problem or issue was implemented and uses examples from the literature to support the analysis.
Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.	Does not write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.	Writes clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics with some errors and lapses.	Writes clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.	Writes clearly and logically, using evidence to support a central idea, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics; and ensures the paper contains supporting examples for the main points.
Write following APA style for in-text citations, quotes, and references.	Does not write following APA style for in-text citations, quotes, and references.	Writes following APA style for in-text citations, quotes, and references with some errors and lapses.	Writes following APA style for in-text citations, quotes, and references.	Writes following APA style for in-text citations, quotes, and references without errors, and uses current reference sources.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Analyzing a Current Health Care Problem or Issue

Problem/Issue                 The global and domestic demand for personal protective equipment (PPE) in various healthcare facilities has increased since the beginning of COVID-19 in December 2019. In turn, healthcare workers throughout the country have reported massive PPE shortages, thus putting frontline healthcare workers and patients at risk of contracting and passing along the virus, especially when providing care (Ranney et al., 2020). The uncertainty of the healthcare facilities as to whether PPE is enough to protect the healthcare providers…