Complete the Ethical Self-Assessment located at http://www.ache.org/newclub/career/ethself.cfm. Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you examine the influence of individual ethics on decision making within the health care industry. Include the following in your paper:

  • Identify the four major ethical principles.
  • Discuss what you learned about your own ethical decision- making process from the self-assessments.
  • Examine the effect of professional ACHE standards on your ethical decision- making process.
  • Explain how your individual ethics influence your decision- making process.
  • Examine the influence of individual ethics on professional decisions.
  • Analyze the relationship of these principles to current health care issues.
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To prepare:  

  • Consider a recent clinical experience in which you were providing care for a patient.
  • Determine the extent to which the care that you provided was based on evidence and research findings or supported only by your organization’s standard procedures. How do you know if the tasks were based on research?
  • What questions have you thought about in a particular area of care such as a  procedure or policy?
  • Review Chapter 2, pages 36—39 on “Asking Well worded Clinical Questions” in Polit & Beck and consult the resource from the Walden Student Center for Success: Clinical Question Anatomy & examples of PICOT questions (found in this week’s Learning Resources). Formulate your background questions and PICOT question.
  • Reflect on the barriers that might inhibit the implementation of evidence-based practice in your clinical environment.
  • Review the article “Adopting Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Decision Making” in this week’s Learning Resources. Select one of the barriers described that is evident in your organization and formulate a plan for overcoming this barrier.
  Post on or before Day 3:  
  • (1)  an evaluation of the use, or lack thereof, of EBP in a recent clinical experience.
  • (2) Identify which aspects of the care delivered, if any, were based on evidence and provide your rationale.
  • (3) List your background questions and PICOT question about this nursing topic.
  • (4) Critique how the policies, procedures, and culture in your organization may hinder or support the adoption of evidence-based practices.
  • (5) Identify the barrier you selected from the article and explain how this barrier could be overcome within your organization
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Support Need Analysis Using the information from the interview you conducted in Week 2, list in descending order the support needs of your participant. Also discuss how to implement objectives of  People 2020 to increase wellness.Healthy Give examples of appropriate interventions of the professional caregiver, for example, the nurse. Submit your findings in a 4- to 5-page Microsoft Word document. Support your responses with examples. On a separate references page, cite all sources using APA format.
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