Unit title & code Ethical and Legal Issues in Healthcare [PUB014-6/ STI014 6]
Assignment number and title Assessment 2
Assignment type Essay [CW-Ess]
Weighting of assignment 70%
Size or length of assessment 2,500 words
Unit learning outcomes:
1. A critical awareness of contemporary ethical and legal problems in healthcare and a comprehensive appreciation of relevant ethical and legal theories and concepts and their applicability to these problems.
2.Analyse healthcare practices and needs in order to identify and critically evaluate the ethical and legal challenges facing healthcare practitioners, patients and society, and to justify and defend potential solutions to the ethical and legal problems.
PUB014-6/ STI014-6 Ethical & Legal Issues in Healthcare Assignment-Bedfordshire University UK.
What am I required to do in this assignment?
Write a 2,500-word essay on any ethical, legal, or ethical and legal issue in healthcare. You could choose from one of the following questions or choose any other healthcare issue:
- When, if ever, is it permissible to prevent people from smoking tobacco?
- Are compulsory vaccinations ever justifiable?
- Do the benefits of water fluoridation justify its imposition?
- May a person’s HIV status be revealed without their consent
You need to demonstrate a critical and systematic analysis to evaluate the ethical and/or legal problems and challenges on the issue
Your Assessment 2 should be on a different topic to your Assessment 1.
You need to provide relevant literature to support your arguments in your assessment.
References should be cited both in the text and at the end in a reference list.
What do I need to do to pass? (Threshold Expectations from UIF)
1.Demonstrate knowledge and critical awareness of a current ethical and/or legal issue in contemporary healthcare, which is informed by literature and research at the forefront of the discipline.
2.Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of relevant ethical and/or legal theories and concepts and a critical appreciation of how they are applicable to the chosen assessment topic.
3.Demonstrate a critical and systematic analysis, and provide a well-argued and creative evaluation of the ethical and/or legal problems and challenges raised by the healthcare issue addressed in the assessment.
PUB014-6/ STI014-6 Ethical & Legal Issues in Healthcare Assignment-Bedfordshire University UK.
How do I produce high quality work that merits a good grade?
THIS SECTION IS COMPLETED BY THE STUDENT IN CLASS WHEN THE ASSESSMENT IS DISCUSSED IN WEEK 1
How does this assignment relate to what we are doing in scheduled sessions?
Each week the unit will cover content that will help you to plan for your assignment with opportunities for extended learning.The weekly unit content is designed to enable you to develop an understanding of the ethical and legal problems in healthcare in an incremental way, starting with an exploration of the ethical and legal theories and concepts and their importance in health care settings and in public health followed by detailed discussions on the application of theories and concepts in addressing ethical and leagal issues in practice.
PUB014-6/ STI014-6 Ethical & Legal Issues in Healthcare Assignment-Bedfordshire University UK.
During the later half of the unit sessions, you will be able to develop and demonstrate a current ethical and/or legal issue in contemporary healthcare, which should be informed by literature and research at the forefront of the discipline. During the sessions, you will be encouraged to work in groups and to develop your
critical thinking through both open discussions and small group based tasks.