Background The background for this project is as follows: You are hired at a Catholic healthcare facility which was originally founded by the Felician Sisters. The administration at your workplace is...

Background

The background for this project is as follows:

You are hired at a Catholic healthcare facility which was originally founded by the Felician Sisters. The administration at your workplace is appreciative of your efforts to complete your nursing degree and has received word that you have taken Felician University’s RELS 310. They know that you bring with you a holistic understanding of healthcare which includes integration of moral and spiritual considerations.

Scenario

You have been appointed the head of a committee that will author a new patient handbook for the facility.

Assignment: Patient Handbook for the Facility

For your Final Integration Project, you will write an introduction to the handbook, and one article regarding the institution’s stance on a morally challenging medical issue based on the Catholic-Christian understandings discussed in our course.

You will submit one Microsoft Word document of about five to six pages. The reference page of the project does not count towards the total number of pages.

Part 1) Handbook Introduction: Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and Holistic Care

In the introduction, discuss Catholic Social Teaching (CST) with emphasis on its central theme: The Dignity of the Human Person. Explain how your healthcare institution strives to provide holistic care to everyone it serves. Include a discussion of how these concepts have been integrated into healthcare practice from the founding of the institution to the present day. The introduction should be about two pages and include two direct references from course materials. This is not a research assignment, where you need to locate and rely upon material outside of the course. Integrate understandings from our course and refer directly to course materials to explain how and why healthcare at your institution holds CST and holistic care as priorities.

Part 2) Article regarding the ethical dimensions of one medical dilemma from the Catholic Christian perspective

For your handbook article, choose a morally challenging medical issue discussed in our course which presents a dilemma for those deciding on possible medical treatment options. Define the medical issue and explain the basics of Catholic-Christian teaching regarding the medical treatment options in an article of about three pages. Provide a clear and concise guide to inform patients and/or their families regarding the Catholic-Christian ethical understandings of the dilemma and what types of procedures would or would not be permissible at your institution. Provide two or three references from the coursework including the texts and/or official documents that explain Church teaching. Again, this is not a research paper. Utilize resources from the course.

Here are the sources that were used during this course:

1. O’Rourke, K. D., & Boyle, P. J XXXXXXXXXXMedical Ethics: Sources of Catholic Teachings (Fourth ed.). Washington , DC: Georgetown University Press.

2. The Rebirth of the Clinic: An Introduction to Spirituality in Health Care by Daniel Sulmasy

3. https://www.usccb.org/

4. https://catholic-link.org/catholic-social-teaching/

Instructions to follow

You can use additional sources outside of the ones that I have provided

The paper must be 6 pages long not including the title page or reference page (please read the Assignment section)

The entire paper must be in APA format (6th edition)

In addition to the 6 pages please add a title page and a reference page

The paper is due on Dec. 18th at 11:59 pm THANK YOU ADVANCE!