Purpose: The purpose of this Assignment is for students to demonstrate the capacity to develop an ethical argument/s based on the four ethical principle: autonomy, justice, beneficence,and non-maleficence.students will use their allocated topic to develop a sound ethical argumentative opinion piece.
HLSC220 Health Care Ethics Essay-Australian Catholic University.
Assignment Details:
During the 1st Week of lectures your tutor will allocate a topic for discussion from the prescribed four options. Using the allocated topic given to you construct an argumentative essay.
Learning outcome Assessed: 1&2
How to submit: Electronically via Turnitin Week 6 Tuesday 1st September 2359 hour. Late submission Will attract a penalty as per ACU assignment policy.
Return of assignment: Marks and feedback will be published within 3 weeks in Turnitin.
Assignment Criteria: Marking will be undertaken using a rubric (see Appendix 1 in your unit outline) please include the word count of your Assignment on the front page of your Assignment or in a header.please note that in-text citations are included in the word count whilst the reference list is not included in the word count. words that are more than 10% over the word count will not be considered please see further information in the section titled word count in your unit outline.
Topics
1.Health care workers have a moral obligation to care for covid19 patients and cannot object caring for these patients.
2.organ retrieval should be performed on all deceased persons despite objection from loved ones.
3.Expectant mother who misuse alcohol and or illicit drugs should be subject to mandatory reporting requirement for child abuse.
4. Governments should have the authority to stop citizens from participating in community activities when they refues immunization.
In addition to the rubric the content below are some guideline for student consideration in writing their argumentative essay. this is not an exhaustive list, but simply point for consideration.
The bare minimum is that you should let the reader know the topic and introduce your stance on the issue for example – this essay will address the option health care workers (HCW) have in confronting issues of violence against them and will show and reason why HCW ought to be able to refuse care.
Remember to clarify your understanding of the topic and key terms or concepts used do not assume the reader knows – the examiner wants to know.
A good argumentative Essay considers the counter arguments against the position taken and seeks to defend them with reasoning and logic and always with reference to the literature. Failure to do so cannot be considered an argument- it is a one-sided account and unchallenged opinion even if well sourced and referenced.
HLSC220 Health Care Ethics Essay-Australian Catholic University.
The essay must be ethically sound and constructed- it ought to provide a rich account of ethical thought and justification based on sound ethical theories and priniciplism. much of this is available to you in the modules and leganto reading list in the same tile. where necessary you might choose to reinforce arguments with professional codes, and legal consideration.
communicating based on an emotional account can detract from the essay as the write is communicating on a personal stake on the topic and thus is invested in that emotion it is better to give example and support the example with the literature in mind how ever, you can obviously draw the reader to your argument by providing strong ethical, contemporary arguments that support your stance.
As always in any essay the following point ought to be respected:
- paragraph construction
- flow of argument
- Avoiding repetitive statements
- considering the literature and carefully providing source used
- consider using the literature to point of redundancy-i.e you read the same view in other source.
- A good argument is well supported with the literature and this ought to be provided from multiple sources.
HLSC220 Health Care Ethics Essay-Australian Catholic University.