GCU PHI413 All Weeks Discussions Latest 2019 February Question # 00598448 Course Code : PHI413 Subject: Health Care Due on: 02/22/2019 Posted On: 02/22/2019 12:49 PM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.6/5

PHI413
Ethical and Spiritual Decision Making In Health Care

Week 1 Discussion

DQ1 What would spirituality be according to your own
worldview? How do you believe that your conception of spirituality would
influence the way in which you care for patients?

DQ2 What aspects of the topic readings do you find the most
interesting? What is your view of the analysis of disease and healing in the
readings? Explain.

PHI413
Ethical and Spiritual Decision Making In Health Care

Week 2 Discussion

DQ1 What is the Christian concept of the imago Dei? How
might it be important to health care, and why is it relevant?

DQ2 According to your worldview, what value does a human
person have? How does your position affect your stance on controversial
bioethical issues, such as abortion, designer babies, and stem cell research?

PHI413
Ethical and Spiritual Decision Making In Health Care

Week 3 Discussion

DQ1 Principlism, especially in the context of bioethics in
the United States, has often been critiqued for raising the principle of
autonomy to the highest place, such that it trumps all other principles or
values. How would you rank the importance of each of the four principles? How
do you believe they would be ordered in the context of the Christian biblical
narrative? Refer to the topic overview and other topic study materials in your
response.

DQ2 What do the four parts of the Christian biblical
narrative (i.e., creation, fall, redemption, and restoration) say about the
nature of God and of reality in relation to the reality of sickness and
disease? From where would one find comfort and hope in the light of illness
according to this narrative? Explain in detail each part of the narrative above
and analyze the implications.

PHI413
Ethical and Spiritual Decision Making In Health Care

Week 4 Discussion

DQ1 How often do you
engage with or witness death in your work? How has this experience or the lack
of it shaped your view of death? Has it gotten easier or harder for you to
accept the fact of death? As you explain, include your clinical specialty.

DQ2 Reflect on the analysis of the sin of suicide and, thus,
euthanasia from the topic readings. Do you agree? Why or why not? Refer to the
lecture and topic readings in your response

PHI413
Ethical and Spiritual Decision Making In Health Care

Week 5 Discussion

DQ1 What is your definition of spiritual care? How does it
differ or accord with the description given in the topic readings? Explain.

DQ2 When it comes to facilitating spiritual care for
patients with worldviews different from your own, what are your strengths and
weaknesses? If you were the patient, who would have the final say in terms of
ethical decision-making and intervention in the event of a difficult situation?