HLSC220: Healthcare Ethics
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| ASSESSMENT INFORMATION | |
| Assessment Title | Oral presentation |
| Purpose | The purpose of this assessment is to provide students with an opportunity to analyse and argue an ethical imperative in healthcare pertinent to their practice as a healthcare professional. |
| Due Date | Refer to HLSC220 EUO |
| Time Due | Refer to HLSC220 EUO |
| Weighting | 35% |
| Length | 6-7 minutes total |
| Assessment Rubric | Refer to Extended Unit Outline Appendix 2 |
| LOs Assessed | LO1, LO2, LO3 |
| Task | Students are required to record and upload an oral presentation of a structured ethical argument, allowing demonstration analysis and debate of an ethical issue in healthcare. 1. Select one of the following ethical concepts as the focus for your presentation: a. Veracity b. Futility c. Confidentiality d. Consent 2. Briefly introduce and define your selected ethical concept as a general ethical concept in society. 3. Discuss your selected ethical concept as it relates to healthcare: • Provide details of the viewpoint you are taking • Justify your viewpoint based on evidence 4. Explain why this issue is a critical concept for ethical healthcare delivery. 5. Identify sources of ethical disagreement that relate to your selected topic – consider the concepts of absolutism, relativism, and pluralism as a starting point. 6. Describe how your selected ethical concept relates to your professional code of ethics/code of conduct. 7. Conclude your presentation with a brief overview of the presentation and the viewpoint shared. Do not include new information in the conclusion |
HLSC220: Healthcare Ethics
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| 8. Provide a list of the references that you have used to formulate your discussion and build your presentation using APA 7th edition. The oral presentation must be recorded and uploaded by following the instructions available to you in the HLSC220 LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM site. |
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| Target Audience | Healthcare professionals |
| Submission | Via the Turnitin link in the HLSC220 LEO site |
| FORMATTING | |
| File format | Submit as an ECHO360 file. |
| Structure | Presentation is to be structured as per the PowerPoint template provided. Do not add or remove slides. |
| Direct quotes | Always require page number. No more than 10% of the word count should be direct quotes. |
| Header | Not required |
| Footer | Not required |
| REFERENCING | |
| Referencing Style | APA 7th Edition. It is recommended that you download ENDNOTE referencing software free from ACU https://libguides.acu.edu.au/endnote |
| Minimum References | There is no set number of references that must be used as a minimum for this task, but as a rough guide only, if you have utilized less than 10-12 unique quality peer-reviewed sources then you have not read widely enough. All arguments must be supported using a variety of high-quality primary evidence. Avoid using any one source repetitively. |
| Age of References | Most references for this task should be published within the last 5 years, however the appropriate use of older evidence sources (e.g. seminal theoretical ethical work) is acceptable. |
| Alphabetical Order | References are arranged alphabetically by author family name |
| Hanging Indent | Not required here as PowerPoint doesn’t like doing this. |
| DOI or URL | Presented as functional hyperlink |
| Spacing | Double spacing the entire reference list, both within and between entries |
| ADMINISTRATION | |
| Late Penalties | Late penalties will be applied from 02:01pm on the 19thApril 2023, incurring 5% penalty of the maximum marks available up to a maximum of 15% in total. Assessment tasks that are submitted more than three calendar days after the due date or extended due date will not be allocated a mark. Example: |
HLSC220: Healthcare Ethics
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| An assignment is submitted 12 hours late and is initially marked at 60 out of 100. A 5% penalty is applied (5% of 100 is 5 marks). Therefore, the student receives 55 out of 100 as a final mark.
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| Return of Marks | Marks will generally be returned in three weeks of the submission due date; if this is not obtainable, you will be notified via the LEO forum. |
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| Final Assignment | Marks for assessment two of this unit will usually be made available after three weeks. |
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| Assessment template project informed by ACU student forums, ACU Librarians and the Academic Skills Unit. |