Assignment: Nursing Leadership Laws
Introduction
This assignment is intended to introduce different ethical principles individuals’ value. This will be observed from a Christian perspective. Also ethical terminology will be reviewed or introduced.
Upon successful completion of this assignment you should be able to:
Define ethical terms
Compare and contrast the difference between basic ethics and dilemma ethics.
Identify the Leadership Laws as described by Maxwell and Elmore needed to create sound policy.
Resources
Website: “Teaching the Virtues” by Christina Hoff Somners: http://forerunner.com/forerunner/X0116_Teaching_the_Virtues.html
Textbook: Maxwell leadership Bible
Textbook: Rae Moral Choices
File: Ethical Vocabulary List
PowerPoint: Ethical Decision Making
Instructions
View the Ethical Decision Making PowerPoint.
Read the essay “Teaching the Virtues” by Christina Hoff Somners at http://forerunner.com/forerunner/X0116_Teaching_the_Virtues.html
Review three Leadership Laws from the Maxwell Leadership Bible (2007). An Index for the Leadership Laws can be found in the back of your Bible. Consider your own personal and professional growth as you decide which laws to review.
Review/ define the ethics vocabulary list found as an attachment in course materials under workshop one. Be prepared to apply the ethical theories and principles to discussions and assignments throughout the course. We need to understand and speak the language of ethics as we participate in ethical discussions.
Review the PowerPoint on ethical decision making models.
Access at least two of the following or other ethical resources online:Potter Box
Decision Model Based on Moral Development Theory (Kristen Alley Swain)
Hasted’s Bioethical Decision Making Model
Kohlberg & Gilligan
The President’s Council on Bioethics
World Transhumanis Association
American Society of Bioethics and Humanities
NCBC The National Catholic Bioethics Center
Six Step Ethical Decision Making Model
Navigate to the threaded discussion and respond to the following:Post a two or three paragraph summary of your thoughts/ideas on this material and the integration of personal ethics with organizational and public ethics.
Compare and contrast the difference between basic ethics and dilemma ethics.
Review of leadership laws
Your initial post is due by the fifth day of the workshop.
Read and respond to at least two of your classmates’ initial postings and any questions you are asked in your initial post by the end of the workshop.
Use this material as you respond to various discussions and prepare work during the remainder of the course.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.