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Assignment
- Use Forum 04 in Nurs
505A or
Nurs
505B to post
your primary assignment for either Option One or
Two. Even though you'll be posting primarily within
your discussion group, you're welcome to hop around
and see what's going on in the discussions of other
groups. You may contribute to another group's
discussion if you're so inclined.
Discussion
Groups
- Nurs
505A:
- Forum
04-A
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- Nurs
505A:
- Forum
04-B
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- Nurs
505A:
- Forum
04-C
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- Antonio
- Chan
- Dawson
- Gelyana
- Greco
- Miner
- Sanchez
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- Akahori
- Kemp
- Mealer
- Mohun
- Person
- Rodriguez
- Smith
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- Blaschka
- Bosch
- Craven
- Ebuen
- Fox
- Peacock
- Jacobs
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- Nurs
505B:
- Forum
04-A
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- Nurs
505B:
- Forum
04-B
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- Nurs
505B:
- Forum
04-C
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- Dingel-Stewart
- Halliday
- Liebelt
- Locke
- McManus
- Rogers
- Wood
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- Ancelloti-Mendez
- Cooper
- Krenn
- Lewis
- Mangunlay
- Moreno
- Russell
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- Adams
- Bondi
- Doolan
- Edwards
- Hansra
- LaCoste
- Sork
- Steele
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Option
One:
By the end of Week 7
(13 March), find at least two
articles in the current press or
news on ethical "problems related to
systems of care." Post an abstract/
summary of each article. If possible, post
the URL for the article (many newspaper
articles can now be found online; e.g.,
articles in the SF Chronicle can be found
at http://www.sfgate.com).
During Weeks 8 and 9 (18-31 March),
discuss each other's
articles.
- Use Forum 04
in Nurs
505A
or Nurs
505B
to summarize both articles, each in a
separate entry.
- What are the
ethical issues?
- Who do they
involve?
- How are the
dilemmas or issues
resolved?
- How do you see
value, context, principle and
perspective related to each other
in the situation in each
article?
- Conclude each
summary with a question for
discussion.
Google is an
excellent search engine for finding
newspapers and TV networks:
http://www.google.com
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Option
Two:
Focus on
Hospice as an example of a "system
of care," and see if you can identify
ethical issues that are unique to it.
Begin posting as early as you can in Week
7 so that the discussion can evolve
throughout the three weeks of this unit.
- See if you can
find anything in the lay press (within
the past year) that reports on ethical
issues in Hospice...OR
- Scope out at
least two health plans and see if
Hospice services are offered, or
covered.
- Who is health
insurance for??? The living or the
dying? Is Hospice part of "health"
maintenance? What do you think are
the ethical implications and
consequences of offering or not
offering Hospice as a covered
benefit?
- Is Hospice
"ethical"? We withhold antibiotics,
give morphine without checking
vitals first, and maybe even
intentionally overdose. In so doing,
are Hospice professionals really
Kavorkian-ettes? What do you think
about this?
- Talk to a clergy
person and see what their perspective
is, from the standpoint of the beliefs
of their denomination, on these
questions about
Hospice...OR
- Talk to a
Hospice administrator to see how they
think about these questions. Ask them
what they see as the preeminent ethical
issues in Hospice, and how they come to
terms with them.
Finally, get in
touch with your own feelings about the
ethics of "not" providing care...which is
one way of looking at what Hospice is. Do
you stick your nose in when it's time?
What do you think about the strict
criteria Hospice uses to admit? What about
patients in which both they and their
families could clearly benefit from
Hospice but they don't fit the
criteria...and so the patient ends up
being admitted to acute care repeatedly to
get some palliative care and give
caregivers a break?
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