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Overview The focus of the assignment is on the development and defense of a moral argument. • Your topic should articulate a normative position with respect to that topic. • A normative position is a claim that is based on values and is defended using ethical theory and empirical evidence. • For example, the sentences “People should have access to free healthcare”, or “Nurses must promote patients’ autonomy” are normative positions. General guidelines to organize your paper Your paper should be organized into the following sections. Recommended page lengths are provided. The total page length should be 7 pages + references Introduction: Identify your chosen issue. Give a brief description of the prevalence, magnitude, and/or scope of this issue within the contemporary nursing landscape. (1 page) Justification: Articulate how your chosen issue is relevant to an ethics analysis. What values are at stake within the context of your chosen issue? Map these values to existing nursing ethics sources (E.g., CNA code of ethics). (1 page) Claim: Having identified your topic and justified the relevance of your topic as a nursing ethics issue, state your moral position by articulating a normative claim. Your claim should flow from your earlier description of the issue and its relevance to nursing ethics. Analysis: Using ethical theory as well as theoretical and/or empirical sources make a logical case to support your moral position and associated normative claim. (4 pages) Conclusion: State the implications of your position for nursing. (1 page) • First, a brief statement is made about the context of the issue, followed by a question that invites you to take a position on the issue. • You will note that the topic invites you to take a stance on the role that nursing should play, whether at the level of individual nurses, nursing educators, or nursing professional associations. • It is acceptable for you to modify this framing to suit your own interests and purposes. For example, the question may ask you to think about the issue from the perspective of individual nurses, but you might prefer to focus instead on nursing professional associations. TOPIC Silencing nurses In February of 2015, Saskatchewan nurse Carolyn Strom posted on Facebook about the care that her dying grand-father received, which she believed to be subpar. She was disciplined by her provincial regulator, a decision that was widely condemned by nursing academics and the general public. What does this case reveal about the role nursing regulators should play in supporting nurses’ abilities to speak out against inappropriate and unethical care