You will submit your final presentation here for grading, and you will submit it to the discussion board this week as a draft for your peers to review and as a final product to share.  See the discussion board for details.

1. Choose a topic below. 

· Taken from the assigned reading in Butts chapter 12, page 401, “Ethical Reflection: Typical Unethical or Illegal Behaviors in Organizations.”

Ethical Reflection: Typical Unethical or Illegal Behaviors in Organizations:

*Occupational fraud and abuse, including conflics of interest and healthcare fraud.

*Greediness

*Engaging in covert operations

*Producing misleading services

*Reneging or cheating on negotiated terms

*Creating Fuzzy policies than can cause others to lie to get the job done

*Showing overconfidence in self-judgment

*Disloyalty

*Exhibiting poor quality in performance and apathy in goal attainment

* Engaging in bigotry, sexism, racism, or showing favoritism

*Suppressing rights such as freedom of speech and choice

*Obeying authority in a mindless routine

*Promoting people who are destructive go-getters. Yet seem to outrun mistakes

*Price fixing as standard

*Not speaking up when unethical practices become evident

*Stepping on others to climb the promotion ladder

*Sacrificing innocent people and blaming others to get the job done

*Knowingly exaggerating the advantages of a plan to gathet support

*Failing to cooperate with others

*Lying for the sake of business

*Failing to take responsibility for injurious practices

*Abusing organizational perks

*Corrupting the public process through legal means

*Obstructing or stalling actions and processes

*Dithering

*Inefficiency

2. Create a presentation of 10-15 slides or screens 
excluding the title and references.

· Your slides/screen should include titles, main ideas, bullet points, and relevant images, charts, graphs, etc.  

3. In your presentation:

· Describe an ethical situation, based on the chosen topic, that can get in the nurse’s way of practicing ethically. Describe the situation clearly and concisely.

· Identify how this situation relates to one provision within the Code of Ethics for Nurses.

· Identify two ethical principles that may arise when facing this situation.

· Discuss how a nurse might lessen the impact of the situation on the nurse’s practice.

· In addition to the course texts, cite and reference a minimum of two (2) additional scholarly sources to support your work.

· Close with a summary of your topic, and APA formatted reference slide(s).