PHI 324 – Module 4 Guiding Assignment

Complete Steps 1 and 2 below. Refer to the Assignment Guidelines document in the Course Home menu for further information regarding critical thinking standards and grading.

Submit this assignment to the Dropbox no later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT. (This Dropbox basket is linked to Turnitin.)

Step 1: Answer all of the questions below.

1. What three sources are responsible for the complexity of the health care decision-making process?

2. What are the limitations facing the patient’s ability to make treatment decisions?

3. What is the nature of the potential conflict between clinical and ethical goals?

4. What defines a person as having “decision-making capacity?”

5. What is the nature and ethical significance of informed consent?

6. State briefly the relationship between “informed consent” and advance directive.

7. State briefly the nature of the moral obligation to take reasonable care of ourselves and the implications for Catholic Hospitals of law (PSDA) not recognizing this obligation.

Step 2: After answering the questions, conclude with the following process:

1. Summarize the main points made in the reading or readings as concisely, but as completely, as you can. What went on in these texts (whether in print or online)? Feel free to provide brief illustrative quotations from the texts (with page numbers in parentheses after the quotations) to help make your point. Where there are many readings assigned, their main points generally overlap; therefore, do your best to succinctly present what’s most crucial.

2. State what you thought was most interesting about what you read. Your aim should be to personalize (that is, say what these readings taught you, what you found interesting or of value), rather than to summarize (as you did in the first part). Use phrases like the following: “From these readings, I learned…” or “I didn’t used to understand…but now I do because…,” or “What I found interesting was…,” and so on.