Week 4 Discussion
TASK
Post your initial response to the topic below.
Advance Care Planning and Analysis
Read the section titled Reflective Practice: Pants on Fire from the chapter Health Policy, Politics, and Professional Ethics (ATTACHED) and address the questions below.
How do you judge Palins quote below, as an effective strategy to oppose Democrats’ plans for health care reform or unethical scaremongering?
o 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 Obamas 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.”
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?
As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format. Support your work, using your course lectures and textbook readings. Helpful APA guides and resources are available in the . Below are guides that are located in the library and can be accessed and downloaded via the . The American Psychological Association website also provides detailed guidance on formatting, citations, and references at
