Ethical Paper Instructions
1. Choose an ethical topic of interest to you related to healthcare from the following list:
1) Genetic testing for fatal diseases
2) Withdrawal or withholding of nutrition and hydration in terminally ill patients
3) Do nurses have the right to refuse to care for patients with contagious disease, such as Ebola? 4) Should the Dead Donor Rule be changed to permit organ procurement from persons with lower brain stem functioning?
5) Mandatory prenatal genetic testing
6) Should certain professions/employers be allowed to require mandatory testing of employees for genetic conditions that might affect job performance/safety?
2. Compile a Pro/Con “BIB card” for at least six articles. (Three articles in support/Pro and three articles against/Con your ethical issue. Indicate at the top of each page which articles are “Pro” and which ones are “Con”.) These articles must be obtained via the NSU online databases, which can be accessed via the online NSU Watson and Shreveport Library websites. (Do not limit yourself to nursing databases for this assignment.) The journal articles must be from peer reviewed, professional journals in the US, about the US population and issues, and no more than five years old. (Professional non-nursing journals can also be used.) Websites, dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. cannot be used as references. (See Ethical Analysis guidelines & grading rubric in the N2160 syllabus.) Your Ethics text can be used for your ethical principle definitions but is not to be counted as one of the six Bib summaries. The Pro/Con Bib sources should come from published sources, as noted previously. I must be able to verify the source….