My Growth as a Moral Agent and Team Member
Signature Assignment: My Growth as a Moral Agent and Team Member
Instructions:
Respond to the following prompts. Use APA style (1” margins, 12-point Times New Roman Font, double spaced throughout, page numbers on the top right of each page). This should generate a paper that is 5-8 pages in length. You will have a couple of references. Include citations in your text in APA style and a references page in APA style.
Part I – Ethical Case Analysis
* Success tip: Most students lose points on this section because they don’t follow the directions to analyze the case using 3 ethical theories or principles, or they analyze the case from the perspective of making a personal decision rather than from the perspective of a public health professional making a policy recommendation.
Paragraph 1:
Select one of the cases we discussed this semester. Select a case that you found particularly challenging to your own personal beliefs or that generated some robust discussion in your team. Briefly summarize the salient points of the case. Be sure to cite the textbook and include it on your reference list.
Case Study:
Provided in uploaded file
Paragraph 2 (note: if you need to break this section into more than one paragraph, that’s okay):
Identify and clearly describe the conflicting priorities in this case. Analyze the case using at least three ethical theories or principles. For example, “From a deontologic perspective, the public health professionals in this case have a duty to….” or “Applying the priniciple of autonomy, the correct course of action would be…..” Discuss possible positive and negative implications of acting on each of these theories or principles.
Paragraph 3:
Identify the course of action you would choose and why. Describe your own core beliefs that inform this decision. Describe how you developed these beliefs.
Think about a teammate who took a position different from yours. Describe their position and what you understand about why they took this position. (I encourage you to meet with one another and talk about this to gain clarity).
My teammates had similar positions.
What did your team conclude about this case, and why?
This is the course of action my team took (directly from our discussion post):
Which course of action will your team choose?
– Hi team, from what I’ve read most of you agree to maintain the funds in maternal-child health care. I personally feel like it’s our obligation to fix a situation like infant mortality before it gets worse. There are so many women who require education on what to take while pregnant and how to take care of themselves. I don’t think shifting resources would help at this moment because there is still a chance of infant mortality rates going up. This is what I would decide however, y’all are more than welcome to add to this.
What is the justification for your decision? (Which ethical principles take priority and why?)- The justification for this decision is beneficence by not doing any harm by maximizing the possible benefits and justice by doing the right thing in the maternal-child health program.
Part II – My Growth
Paragraph 1:
This paragraph addresses your understanding of yourself as a moral agent. Start by describing what your understanding was at the beginning of the semester. Did you start out seeing yourself as someone who can make ethical decisions and act on them? How much power and responsibility did you believe you had at the beginning of the semester.
Describe your current understanding of yourself as a moral agent. How has your understanding of yourself changed over the course of the semester?
Finally, how do you still need to grow? Write a goal for your own growth and briefly describe actions you will take to continuing growing as a moral agent and ethical professional.
Paragraph 2:
This paragraph addresses your ability to work on a team of health professionals to make ethical choices. Start by describing your ability to solve problems with a team at the beginning of the semester.
At the begining of the semester I didn’t participate with responding to my teammates posts, this has now improved.
Describe how you have grown in your ability to work on a team. What has changed? Describe how you contributed to your team this semester.
Finally, identify points where you still need to grow in your ability to work effectively on a team of diverse professionals making difficult decisions. What could you have done better this semester as a team member? Write a goal for your continued growth as a team member and briefly describe actions you will take to continue developing teamwork skills.
One area of growth for myself is being aware of any biases I may have.
Conclusion:
Write a concluding paragraph tying the paper together by summarizing your major points of growth this semester.
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