Law & Ethics: Patient Rights

Conduct and write a literature review about your topic. The literature review should consist of 500-800 words and contain at least five article citations from peer-reviewed, academic journals dating from 2014 to the present. In addition to the five current journal articles, you may also cite landmark studies on your selected topic published prior to 2014, books, magazine articles, trade publications, video documentaries, etc. Library databases can include not only health (such as Medline) but legal as well (such as LexisNexis). You will submit during Week 4 of the semester the full-text, PDF versions of the five current peer-reviewed journal articles and, on a separate sheet, their correctly formatted citations. The literature review, along with your completed term project, will be submitted Week 10.

Based on your written review of the literature, develop your critical responses to the following questions and statements indicated below. To avoid the appearance of plagiarism, please be sure to correctly use in-text citations (aligned with the Reference Page) when you are expressing viewpoints other than your own:

Questions/Statements:
Why is this ethical and/or legal issue a problem?
Describe who the various stakeholders are and how they have sought to resolve this problem. Include all known points of view.
How, if at all, did a resolution occur? Describe the legal action sequences which occurred or are currently underway.
How would you stand to personally benefit from or be harmed by this issue?

Reference Page (works cited). Should exactly align with the in-text citations used throughout the report, not just limited the review of the literature.

Format: APA Format Style as per 6th edition. Please see APA writing guidelines and citation criteria indicate on the previous pages. Please utilize the library’s services if you require assistance with formatting, keyword searches, databases, etc.