Analyzing a current healthcare problem or issue

Description

Please use only 4 peer-reviewed and/or scholarly sources within the last 3-5 years.

Please be sure to use at least 4 in-text citations.

At a minimum, be sure to address each point.

Describe the health care problem or issue of Limited Access to Healthcare and provide details about it.

1. 1. • Explore your chosen topic. For this, you should use the first four steps of the Socratic Problem-Solving Approach to aid your critical thinking. The 4 steps include:

4 Socratic Problem-Solving approach

1. 1. • • Identify the elements of the problem, issue, or question
        • Analyze, define, and frame the problem, issue, or question
        • Consider solutions, responses or answers.
        • Choose a solution, response or answer.

Potential interventions

1. • • – Telemedicine
     • – In–home healthcare services
   • – Healthcare information online
   • Identify possible causes for the problem or issue.
2. Use scholarly information to describe and explain the health care problem or issue and identify possible causes for it.
   •  complete the following:
     • Assess the credibility of the information sources.
     • Assess the relevance of the information sources.
3. Analyze the health care problem or issue.
   • Describe the setting or context for the problems or issues.
   • Describe why the problem or issue is important to you.
   • Identify groups of people affected by the problem or issue.
   • Provide examples that support your analysis of the problem or issue.
4. Discuss potential solutions for the health care problem or issue.
   • Describe what would be required to implement a solution.
   • Describe potential consequences of ignoring the problem or issue.
   • Provide the pros and cons for one of the solutions you are proposing.
5. Analyze the ethical implications if the potential solution (the one for which you provide pros and cons) were to be implemented.
   • Provide examples from the literature to support the points you are making.
   • Discuss the pros and cons of implementing the proposed solution from an ethical principle point of view.
   • Describe what would be required to implement the proposed solution.
6. Organize your paper using the following structure and headings:
   • Title page. A separate page.
   • Introduction. A brief one-paragraph statement about the purpose of the paper.
   • Elements of the problem/issue. Identify the elements of the problem or issue or question.
   • Analysis. Analyze, define, and frame the problem or issue.
   • Considering options. Consider solutions, responses, or answers.
   • Solution. Choose a solution, response, or answer.
   • Ethical implications. Ethical implications of implementing the solution.
   • Implementation. Implementation of the potential solution.
   • Conclusion. One paragraph.