Is in-vitro fertilization for older women physiologically past natural childbearing (e.g., a woman who has experienced natural menopause) ethical?
Resources
Incorporate the following resources as well as three or more new, relevant, peer-reviewed resources. You will benefit from reading sources in addition to these provided to fully understand the nature of the ethical conflict.
Grace, P. (2018). Chapter 9: Nursing Ethics and Advanced Practice: Women’s Health
Perla, L. (2001). Is in-vitro fertilization for older women ethical? A personal perspective (Links to an external site.). Nursing Ethics, 8(2), 152–158.
This assignment requires you to incorporate the Ethics Toolbox (moral theories, ethical principles, and provisions of the ANA Code of Ethics) in your analysis to articulate different ways to think about the case
Write concisely and in a scholarly manner. Do not exceed seven double-spaced pages (excluding Title Page and References). The instructor will stop reading at the bottom of page 7. APA, 7th edition, professional paper format (Links to an external site.) is required for title page, citations, references, and headings (no author’s note and abstract are required). Organize your paper under the following headings. Use the suggested page allocations below as a guide.
SITUATION OF ETHICAL CONFLICT (1/2 PAGE)
Briefly, in one paragraph, identify the topic you chose for this assignment and explain why the topic meets the definition for a situation of ethical conflict. The Oxford English Dictionary defines an ethical conflict as “a situation in which a person must choose between two courses of action of (apparent) equal moral importance so that the choice necessarily entails the transgression of an important moral principle.” In other words, each of the two actions is problematic and may lead to undesirable outcomes. Concisely describe some undesirable outcomes with both actions to illustrate why your topic meets the definition of ethical conflict.
STAKEHOLDERS (1/2 TO 1 PG)
Identify the stakeholders. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a stakeholder as “one who is involved in or affected by a course of action.” Discuss possible values, beliefs, and interests that may influence the perceptions of the stakeholders about the ethical conflict. For example, depending on your topic, factors that may influence how a stakeholder views the situation may include religion, culture, professional identity, institutional values, and societal norms or beliefs.
ANALYSIS (4PAGES)
This is the most substantive section of the assignment. Analyze the situation of ethical conflict identified in the first section using moral theories, ethical principles, and provisions of the ANA Code of Ethics relevant to your topic. Organize this section using these three headings:
Moral theories (consequentialist, deontology, virtue ethics, rights theory)
Ethical principles (autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice)
Provisions of the ANA Code of Ethics
You are expected to effectively utilize all of the moral theories, ethical principles, and relevant provisions of the ANA Code of Ethics in a well-developed and scholarly analysis of the situation of ethical conflict that illustrates how the elements of the ethics toolbox provide guidance in the situation. Explain how specific provisions of the ANA Code of Ethics provide “…normative, applied moral guidance for nurses in terms of what they ought to do, be, and seek” in the situation of ethical conflict (ANA, 2015, p. xii).
RESOLUTION (1PAGE)
Begin this section by unequivocally stating the ethically correct action in one sentence. Then, summarize the moral theories, ethical principles, and provision(s) of the ANA code that were most persuasive to you in arriving at the ethically correct action for your topic (e.g., why they made the strongest case for whether the practice is ethical or not ethical). Do not re-state the entire case you made in the analysis section.
