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

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.

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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.
2. To explore your chosen topic, you should use the first four steps of the Socratic Problem-Solving Approach to aid your critical thinking. This approach was introduced in the second assessment.
3. Identify possible causes for the problem or issue.
4. Use scholarly information to explain the health care problem or issue.
5. Identify at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles about the topic.
   1. You may use articles you found while working on Assessment 2 or you may search the Capella Library for other articles.
   1. You may find the applicable Undergraduate Library Research Guide helpful in your search.
6. Assess the credibility of the information sources.
7. Assess the relevance of the information sources.
8. Analyze the problem or issue.
   1. Describe the setting or context for the problems or issues.
   1. Describe why the problem or issue is important to you.
   1. Identify groups of people affected by the problem or issue.
9. Discuss potential solutions for the problem or issue.
   1. Compare your opinion with other opinions you find in sources from the Capella Library.
   1. Provide the pros and cons for one of the solutions you are proposing.
10. Analyze the ethical implications if the potential solution (the one for which you provide pros and cons) were to be implemented.
    1. Discuss the pros and cons of implementing the proposed solution from an ethical principle point of view.
    1. Provide examples from the literature to support the points you are making.
11. Describe what would be necessary to implement the proposed solution.

Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:

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• Assessment 3 Example [PDF].

Additional Requirements

1. Length: At least 5–7 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and reference page.
2. Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
3. APA Template: Use the APA Style Paper Template [DOCX] as the paper format and the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOC] for guidance.
4. Written communication: Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
5. Using outside sources: Integrate information from outside sources into academic writing by appropriately quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing, following APA style.
6. 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.
7. 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.

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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.

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Note: Read the Analyze a Current Health Care Problem or Issue Scoring Guide to fully understand how your paper will be graded.

If you would like assistance in organizing your assessment, or if you simply have a question about your assessment, do not hesitate to ask faculty or the teaching assistants in the NHS Learner Success Lab for guidance and suggestions. 

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Analyze a Current Health Care Problem or Issue

Description of The Healthcare Issue

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Possible Causes of the Issue

Depending on the nature of the healthcare concern being addressed in a healthcare facility, there can emerge various possible causes as to why medical errors exist. Ideally, medical errors can exist in almost all healthcare settings that one can imagine. From clinics, hospitals, centers of surgery, nursing care homes, pharmacies as well as patient’s homes. One of the causes of medical errors is about | PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW AT writtask.com | or in verbal form, whenever there is a miscommunication, chances are that there will be an error in the medication process (Cheragi et al., 2013). For instance, think of a situation where a pharmacist improperly prescribes a medication that is meant to be taken twice a day and he accidentally indicates | PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW AT writtask.com | overdose that is caused by improper communication on the prescription. Another source of error is the inadequate flow of | PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW AT writtask.com | is important in any healthcare setting especially when evaluated based on different areas of service. Instance of inadequate information flow normally happens when information fails to follow a patient in the event such a patient is transferred from one facility to another or one area of | PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW AT writtask.com | may not be properly communicated or generally poor coordination of orders on medication for transfer of care. Another common source of medication errors is human-related (Cheragi et al., 2013). At times, healthcare providers fail to follow standards of care…