RESEARCH ESSAY PAPER

For your final assignment, select an ethical dilemma that impacts healthcare professionals. You can choose a dilemma that we have discussed in this course, or, one that interests you. If you are having difficulty selecting a topic, please reach out to me. You will then develop practical solutions and utilize an ethical decision-making framework to address the ethical dilemma you chose. Use the following prompts as a guide:

1.)Description/historical overview of the ethical dilemma
2.)Description of the healthcare issue that requires tough decisions
3.)Overview of how the dilemma may challenge the ethics of healthcare professionals
4.)Explanation of both legal/policy and personal decision issues
5.)Include questions that come up and help examine the issue from different perspectives (patient, family, health care professional, community, attorney, policymaker, etc.
6.)Develop 1-2 practical solution(s) to address the ethical dilemma.
7.)Identify and explain the concepts for a framework for ethical decision-making that a healthcare professional could use to address the dilemma.

Some Ethical Dilemmas we have talked about in class. are as follows but you don't have to use these they are just examples.
Tuskegee Syphlis study, Ethical Aspects of Egg Donation, Who owns a dead mans sperm.