Construct your personal professional code of behavior. Construct a 5–10 point personal professional code of behavior to include both ethical and legal standards for healthcare practice. As part of your assessment, (a) compare and contrast your personal p

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Unit 7 Assignment and Grading Rubric

Assignment 7 Competency: Professional Standards in Healthcare

Unit outcome:

• Illustrate how professional standards are applied in healthcare practice. (Competency 1)

Course outcome:

HS290-5: Exhibit behavior consistent with the professional, ethical, and legal standards of allied health practice.

Instructions

Choose one of the following to complete:

Option a) Construct your personal professional code of behavior.

Description: Construct a 5–10 point personal professional code of behavior to include both ethical and legal standards for healthcare practice. As part of your assessment, a) compare and contrast your personal professional code of behavior with the professional code of ethics for your particular healthcare specialty and b) provide a rationale for why you included the points you did. (If your medical occupational specialty group does not have a professional code, compare and contrast to that of another healthcare specialty. Attach your created professional code of ethics and specialty’s professional code of ethics used as a comparison point to the appendix.

OR

Option b) Analyze an existing professional code of behavior that relates to your healthcare specialty.

Description: Assess the professional code of conduct as it relates to the practice of your medical occupational specialty. As part of your assessment, a) identify 5–10 points of the professional code you believe to be most important to healthcare practice and b) illustrate why each of those points is

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important, i.e., what would happen if they were violated? (If your medical occupational specialty group does not have a professional code, compare and contrast to that of another healthcare specialty.) Appropriately reference the professional code of conduct and attach it as an appendix.

OR

Option c) Prior Work Documentation: If you believe you already have documentation showing proficiency with this competency, please contact your instructor immediately to determine if it meets the criteria. If it does, it can be entered into your portfolio and the competency assessed as having met the level of proficiency required. If not, you will need to complete one of the competency assessments as listed.

Requirements

Option a or b: 2–6 pages; excluding any title page, references, appendices, etc.

Option c: Prior Work Documentation with instructor approval

Unit 7-A Assignment Grading Rubric = 100 points (Assignment Option A)

Assignment Requirements Points possible

Points earned by student

Create a 5–10-point professional code of ethics

0–40

Compare and contrast own code of ethics with that of the healthcare specialty

0–20

Describe the rationale for each point in your professional code.

0–40

Total (Sum of all points)

Points deducted for spelling, grammar, and/or APA errors.

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Adjusted total points

Instructor Feedback:

*Instructor will also leave feedback comments within Assignment paper.

Unit 7-B Assignment Grading Rubric = 100 points (Assignment Option B)

Assignment Requirements Points possible

Points earned by student

Identify 5–10 points most important to healthcare practice with rationale

0–25

Illustrate why each point is important 0–75

Total (Sum of all points)

Points deducted for spelling, grammar, and/or APA errors.

Adjusted total points

Instructor Feedback:

*Instructor will also leave feedback comments within Assignment paper.