You are the chief nursing executive for a small rural clinic that provides contraception services to low-income individuals. An insurer, providing care under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), has rejected paying the claims, stating that they are a not-for-profit religious organization and are not obliged to cover these services. You check your records and find that nonpayment for contraception places a significant financial burden on the clinic. These individuals do not have access to any other health care services in the region.
• What would you do to advocate for the patients of the clinic affected by the change?
• How do you justify your actions based on legal and ethical guidelines? Be sure to support your position with a scholarly source.
Category: Business ethics
Working in bilingual and ELL instructional settings
When working in bilingual and ELL instructional settings, addressing language and culture is primarily at the forefront of a teacher’s mind. Fortunately, educators can turn to well-established research findings and examine best practices in providing developmentally appropriate instruction that builds on the linguistic and cultural assets of ELLs.
Part 1: Quick Reference Guide Infographic
Using a free digital tool of your choice like Canva, create a one-page infographic to be used as a quick reference guide for your own personal future professional practice or as a resource for other professionals.
In your infographic, briefly describe five research-based best practices to support ELLs in bilingual/ELL settings for each of the following topics:
English Language Teaching: How to apply knowledge of the English language to provide high-quality teaching that supports English language development and proficiency
Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) and Multicultural Curriculum: How to apply principles of CRT and the use of multicultural curriculum to support ELLs
Ensure your infographic is formatted to convey meaningful information creatively and clearly. Include graphics that are relevant to the content, visually appealing, and use space appropriately.
Part 2: Reflection
In 250-500 words, write a reflection on how the best practices you included in your infographic are supported by current scholarly research and how knowledge of such evidence-based practices can improve professional practice that promotes learning for ELLs.
Support your infographic and reflection with a minimum of five scholarly resources.
Ethics and Technology
Chris smiled as he received the analysis packet from his supervisor. He had been working from home for GEH Mortgage Company, analyzing mortgage applications, for the past 3 years. This particular application involved not just a home mortgage but also an entire farmstead, a home and business. Whenever he received an assignment, he did not know how to analyze, he would call on his friend Joel, whom he had known since high school, to help him accomplish such tasks. He compensated Joel, usually with a case of beer, when they got together on the weekends. Chris knew he could trust Joel to do a good job on the analysis, because Joel had double majored in finance and accounting at a regional university. Chris would then tailor the analysis according to the way the firm expected reports to be submitted. He quickly e-mailed the application packet to Joel.
Chris was perceived as one of the most dependable analysts in the division because of his past work, much of which had been farmed out to Joel. He had received accolades and raises as a result and was enjoying his successful career with the firm.
Questions
The method used by Chris is obviously successful, and the company is satisfied with the results. Is it just good business, or is there an ethical dilemma present?
Should Chris confess to his supervisor or just continue the successful deception?
What are the privacy issues, given that the information used in these analyses is proprietary and sensitive?
Does this activity fit the notion of plagiarism?
Do electronic communication and the telecommuting arrangement make Chris’s actions more likely than if he were in the office?
Ethics and Technology
Chris smiled as he received the analysis packet from his supervisor. He had been working from home for GEH Mortgage Company, analyzing mortgage applications, for the past 3 years. This particular application involved not just a home mortgage but also an entire farmstead, a home and business. Whenever he received an assignment, he did not know how to analyze, he would call on his friend Joel, whom he had known since high school, to help him accomplish such tasks. He compensated Joel, usually with a case of beer, when they got together on the weekends. Chris knew he could trust Joel to do a good job on the analysis, because Joel had double majored in finance and accounting at a regional university. Chris would then tailor the analysis according to the way the firm expected reports to be submitted. He quickly e-mailed the application packet to Joel.
Chris was perceived as one of the most dependable analysts in the division because of his past work, much of which had been farmed out to Joel. He had received accolades and raises as a result and was enjoying his successful career with the firm.
Questions
The method used by Chris is obviously successful, and the company is satisfied with the results. Is it just good business, or is there an ethical dilemma present?
Should Chris confess to his supervisor or just continue the successful deception?
What are the privacy issues, given that the information used in these analyses is proprietary and sensitive?
Does this activity fit the notion of plagiarism?
Do electronic communication and the telecommuting arrangement make Chris’s actions more likely than if he were in the office?
NASW Code of Ethics.
apply ethical decision-making to a true-to-life scenario in social work practice.
The goal of this activity is to simulate how a change in circumstance or information can affect your ethical decision-making process—and in that way mirror common situations in actual practice.
Review the NASW Code of Ethics.
Review the Ethical Decision-Making Tree.
Review the scenarios below and choose one to respond to for this Discussion.
Scenario 1
You are in the first weeks of your internship, and you hear the employees discussing a client in the hallway. They are using terms like “junkie,” “loser,” and “hopeless.” How do you handle this situation?
Scenario 2
You are terminating with a client, and the client asks if they can take a picture of the two of you together to post on their social media page. They want to say how great you were. What are some considerations before responding to their request?
Scenario 3
You are doing an intake on a new client, and they tell you that they recognize you from your church. You do not know “specifically” who they are—but they do seem familiar. How do you respond to this?
Moral And Ethical Development
Moral and ethical development in children affects student learning and school/classroom interactions. Teachers need to ensure moral and ethical instruction and interactions are taking place in the classroom/school. Prosocial behavior should be one of the cornerstones of classroom management plans.
Select a grade level that you intend to teach and write a 500-750 word that addresses the following:
Rationale for the importance of promoting moral and ethical development in the classroom, including the implications of moral and ethical development for the classroom, schoolm and society.
Definition of key terms related to moral and ethical development in toddlers to adolescence, including moral behavior, moral reasoning, and prosocial behavior.
Summary of the six stages of moral development from Kohlberg’s theory and examples of behaviors that might occur within these stages.
Explanation of which of the six stages of Kohlberg’s theory most influences children in your selected grade level.
Provide 2-3 classroom strategies to encourage moral development and promote moral and prosocial student behavior in your selected grade level.
Support your work with 2-3 scholarly resources.
Blockchain to traditional browser server (B/S) and client server (C/S) frameworks
Compare blockchain to traditional browser server (B/S) and client server (C/S) frameworks used for human resource information management systems.
Current case involving a journalism ethics issue
1. Find a current case involving a journalism ethics issue. It has to be something in the news during the past six months. There has to be some connection with journalism. You can find current media ethics controversies from a variety of places online (and you might find others elsewhere):
• Poynter ethics and trust page, https://www.poynter.org/media- news/ethics-trust/
• Columbia Journalism Review (put “ethics” in search area), https://www.cjr.org/
• iMediaEthics, https://www.imediaethics.org/
• Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/journalism-and-media- ethics/resources/articles/
• Go to Google and type “journalism ethics” or other keywords and then click on “News” in the top toolbar to get recent news stories about such issues. You might find something interesting!
2. Lay out the ethical issue (e.g., journalists not being truthful, causing harm, not being transparent with the public, not being independent of government or other institutions, etc.) and dilemma (the two or more choices the journalist has – all having pros and cons) If it isn’t jumping out at you, take a look at the SPJ code of ethics and look at the bullet points. Usually, most media ethics dilemmas are about reporting truth/information needed for the public versus that information harming someone (usually a source, the public, yourself, your company). Or, sometimes it’s about a conflict of interest, such as accepting money or being too close to a source (lack of independence). Or, sometimes it’s placing loyalties with someone or something other than the general public. If you read through the SPJ code of ethics you’ll see the main issues pop out at you. Boil down the ethical dilemma in one sentence, which will help you work through it if it’s clear in your mind.
3. Summarize the facts of the situation in a long paragraph. List the URL for the source.
4. Identify the potential paths or choices that are available. It might be publishing the material or not publishing the material. Maybe a compromise path is possible. Identify the pros and cons – the positive and negative outcomes – of each path. This can be a paragraph.
Psychology and Ethics
Go to APA EthicsLinks to an external site. and carefully review the General Principles and Sections. Describe two past famous psychological studies in detail. Are the studies ethical by today’s standards? Why or why not? Be specific. Identify which principles and sections of the APA Ethics Code relate to the studies. Explain how they relate.
Ethical Leadership and Code of Ethics
Leadership is often defined as the ability to influence people. An effective ethical leader guides an organization and its employees to accomplish organizational goals. In the same vein, an unethical leader can guide an organization and its employees to act unethically, harming both the organization and the stakeholders. Being a leader is an exploration, a reflection, and a test of your leadership values. Seeking understanding of how you resolve ethical dilemmas, taking inventory of where an ethical weakness may lie, and examining the traits of an ethical leader helps you define, shape, and apply an ethical decision-making framework, while also taking into consideration all stakeholders who may be affected by your decisions.
For this task, you will respond to an ethical situation as well as analyze the results of the Ethical Lens Inventory (ELI), which should be completed in the course. This task focuses on you as a leader by helping you to define, refine, and test your ethical boundaries through self-reflection and analysis.
SCENARIOYou are a sales representative for a medical device company that manufactures artificial joints. Your company has developed an artificial knee joint that is less expensive than the competition and will dramatically reduce healing time for patients. However, it is also known to produce a serious and potentially lethal infection in a small percentage of patients. The company refuses to disclose this potential side effect. You feel you have a duty to divulge this issue, but you signed a nondisclosure agreement when you were hired and worry about possible repercussions.
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).
A. Select a nonfictional leader who you feel has exhibited exemplary ethical conduct and do the following:
1. Discuss two ethical traits your chosen leader has demonstrated.
2. Explain how your chosen leader has exhibited ethical conduct.