Assignment Instructions

ANALYZE A CURRENT HEALTH CARE PROBLEM OR ISSUE

Prepare

For this assignment, you will analyze the current health care problem or issue of interest to you, which you used in the Week 4 assignment. You selected one of the problems or issues from the Assignment Topic Areas media resource.

To explore the chosen topic, use the first four topics of the Socratic Problem-Solving Approach interactive for critical thinking that were introduced in the Week 4 assignment. Start by defining the health care problem or issue on the health care topic of your choice, then provide details about the problems or issues that are part of the chosen topic, and identify causes for the problems or issues. Identify at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles about the topic you are discussing by using articles found in the Week 4 assignment or searching the Capella library using the applicable undergraduate library research guide.

Write Your Paper

  1. Use scholarly information to explain a health care problem or issue.
    • Assess the credibility of information sources.
    • Assess the relevance of the information sources.
  2. Analyze the problem or issue.
    • Describe the setting or context for the problems or issues.
    • Describe the reasons that make the problems or issues important to you.
    • Identify groups of people affected by the problems or issues.
  3. Discuss potential solutions for the problems or issues.
    • Describe potential solutions.
    • Compare and contrast your opinion with other opinions you find in sources from the Capella library.
    • Provide the pros and cons for one of the solutions you are proposing.
  4. Explain the ethical implications if the potential solution was implemented.
    • Describe what would be necessary to implement the proposed solution.
    • 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.

Organize your paper using the following structure and headings:

  • Title page. (A separate page.)
  • (A one-paragraph statement about the purpose of the paper.)
  • Identify the elements of the problem or issue, or question.
  • Analyze, define, and frame the problem or issue, or question.
  • Consider solutions, responses, or answers.
  • Choose a solution, response, or answer.
  • Implementation of the potential solution.
  • (One paragraph.)

Academic Requirements

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

  • Length: Include at least 4–6 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and reference page.
  • Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12 point.
  • Writing: Produce text with minimal grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
  • Sources: Integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
  • References: Use at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles and three in-text citations within the paper. Visit APA Style and Formatif needed.
  • Academic Honesty: Submit a draft of your assignment to SafeAssign and make any necessary changes before you submit it to your instructor for grading.

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

Example assignment: You may use the Analyze a Current Health Care Problem or Issue Example Assignment [PDF] to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.

Analyze a Current Health Care Problem or Issue Scoring Guide

Due Date: End of Week 9
Percentage of Course Grade: 30%.

CRITERIA NON-PERFORMANCE BASIC PROFICIENT DISTINGUISHED
Use scholarly information to explain a health care problem or issue.
23%		 Does not identify scholarly information that could explain a health care problem or issue. Identifies scholarly information that could explain a health care problem or issue. Uses scholarly information to explain a health care problem or issue. Uses relevant scholarly information to explain a health care problem or issue, including the reasons that the chosen information helps to explain a health care problem or issue.
Analyze the problem or issue.
22%		 Does not identify a problem or issue. Identifies a problem or issue. Analyzes the problem or issue. Analyzes the problem or issue including definition, who is involved, and causes of the problem or issue.
Discuss potential solutions for the problems or issues.
20%		 Does not describe a potential solution for the problems or issues. Describes a potential solution for the problems or issues. Discusses potential solutions for the problems or issues. Discusses potential solutions for the problems or issues, including potential consequences for ignoring the issues.
Explain the ethical implications if the potential solution was implemented.
20%		 Does not identify the ethical implications if the potential solution was implemented. Identifies the ethical implications if the potential solution was implemented. Explains the ethical implications if the potential solution was implemented. Explains the ethical implications if the potential solution was implemented, enriching the analysis with examples from the readings.
Produce text with minimal grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
5%		 Produces text with significant grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors, making text difficult to follow. Produces text with some grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors, making text difficult to follow at times. Produces text with minimal grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors. Produces text free of grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
Integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
10%		 Does not integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style. Integrates into text mostly appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style, but there are lapses in style use. Integrates into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style. Integrates into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style without errors, and uses current reference sources.