NSG 4068 Week 4 Discussion Question
NSG 4068 Week 4 Discussion Question
The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing
relevant topics for this week on the basis of the course competencies covered.
For this assignment, make sure you post your initial
response to the Discussion Area by the due date assigned.
To support your work, use your course and text readings and
also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your
sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.
Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your
classmates as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your
classmates’ initial postings. Participate in the discussion by asking a
question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view
with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a
relationship between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion. Cite
sources in your responses to other classmates. Complete your participation for
this assignment by the end of the week.
Read the section titled “Reflective Practice: Pants on Fire”
from chapter “Health Policy, Politics, and Professional Ethics” and address the
questions below:
How do you judge Palin’s quote? [“And who will suffer the
most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course.
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down
Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s death panel so his bureaucrats
can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their level of productivity in
society, whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright
evil.] Effective strategy to oppose Democrats’ plans for health care reform or
unethical scaremongering?
Reflect on what informs your judgment: commitment to advance
care planning, analysis of facts, and/or political party loyalties?
Is it right for nurses to endorse health reform legislation
even if the legislation is not perfect? Does this apply to the recently failed
American Health Care Act?