You will submit your final presentation here for grading, and you will submit it to the discussion board this week as a draft for your peers to review and as a final product to share. See the discussion board for details.
1. Choose a topic below.
· Taken from the assigned reading in Butts chapter 12, page 401, “Ethical Reflection: Typical Unethical or Illegal Behaviors in Organizations.”
Ethical Reflection: Typical Unethical or Illegal Behaviors in Organizations:
*Occupational fraud and abuse, including conflics of interest and healthcare fraud.
*Greediness
*Engaging in covert operations
*Producing misleading services
*Reneging or cheating on negotiated terms
*Creating Fuzzy policies than can cause others to lie to get the job done
*Showing overconfidence in self-judgment
*Disloyalty
*Exhibiting poor quality in performance and apathy in goal attainment
* Engaging in bigotry, sexism, racism, or showing favoritism
*Suppressing rights such as freedom of speech and choice
*Obeying authority in a mindless routine
*Promoting people who are destructive go-getters. Yet seem to outrun mistakes
*Price fixing as standard
*Not speaking up when unethical practices become evident
*Stepping on others to climb the promotion ladder
*Sacrificing innocent people and blaming others to get the job done
*Knowingly exaggerating the advantages of a plan to gathet support
*Failing to cooperate with others
*Lying for the sake of business
*Failing to take responsibility for injurious practices
*Abusing organizational perks
*Corrupting the public process through legal means
*Obstructing or stalling actions and processes
*Dithering
*Inefficiency
2. Create a presentation of 10-15 slides or screens
excluding the title and references.
· Your slides/screen should include titles, main ideas, bullet points, and relevant images, charts, graphs, etc.
3. In your presentation:
· Describe an ethical situation, based on the chosen topic, that can get in the nurse’s way of practicing ethically. Describe the situation clearly and concisely.
· Identify how this situation relates to one provision within the Code of Ethics for Nurses.
· Identify two ethical principles that may arise when facing this situation.
· Discuss how a nurse might lessen the impact of the situation on the nurse’s practice.
· In addition to the course texts, cite and reference a minimum of two (2) additional scholarly sources to support your work.
· Close with a summary of your topic, and APA formatted reference slide(s).
