MBA 540: Healthcare Bioethics Paper.

Ethical Autobiography Journal Instructions: The goal of this reflective activity is to affirm your moral compass including your personal and professional morals, values/virtues, and beliefs through exploration of course concepts. Students will reflect, inquire, analyze, and evaluate elements contributing to his/her moral compass. Journaling provides the forum to complete this activity. Reflect and respond to the following prompts ensuring depth and explanation with each journal response.

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I.Reflect on Right and Wrong Personal Behavior

1.What is your understanding of right and wrong personal behavior and provide an example of a past experience from your personal life that confirmed right and wrong?

2.Where did your belief/understanding of right and wrong come from? What did you learn from your family of origin about right and wrong? What else influenced your definition (e.g. teachers, faith community) and how?

II.Right and Wrong Professional Behavior

1.What is your belief of right and wrong professional behavior, and where does this belief/understanding of right and wrong come from? (For example faculty, mentors, managers, leaders, observing someone who did not exemplify professional behavior, etc.)? Elaborate

2.Provide an example of a past experience from your professional life that confirmed right and wrong.

III.Personal Factors: Personal Values, Virtues, and Morals

1.Values are beliefs that are really important to you. Lived values are virtues. Lived values lead to moral behavior (something you consistently must do or must avoid). For example, the value of honesty as a personal virtue supports the moral of truth telling and not lying. The value of mercy as a virtue includes demonstrating compassion towards others with injustice and the moral of advocating for justice. What are your top three to five lived values (convictions/beliefs important to you that you live out daily) which are called virtues? Provide a sentence description of each of these virtues (lived value).

2.What contributed to your value and virtue formation (parents, teachers, faith community, and/or other influences)? Describe.

3.How do these virtues support moral behavior in your professional role (actions you do and/or actions you avoid)? Describe by sharing a practice experience example that demonstrates congruency of these values in practice. For example……

4.Analyze and discuss how professionally, and under what circumstance, these values/beliefs might result in you providing biased care or a biased behavior with a team member? (Discuss each value/belief and how it may result in bias care if you are not cognizant and aware of the potential bias).

IV.Greatest Assets as a Professional

1.What are your three characteristics, values, motivations, principles, behaviors, or skills that you believe are your greatest assets as a professional? Provide a sentence or more describing each asset.

2.Analyze and discuss how professionally, and under what circumstance, these attributes might become your greatest weakness? (Discuss each asset and how it may become a weakness professionally).

MBA 540: Healthcare Bioethics Paper.

V.Personal Needs

1.What are your three personal needs (what motivates you?) that you think match well with your profession? Describe the motivators/needs.

MBA 540: Healthcare Bioethics Paper.

2.Analyze and discuss how professionally, and under what circumstance, these personal needs (motivators) might become your greatest weakness? Discuss each need/motivator and how it may become a weakness professionally MBA 540: Healthcare Bioethics Paper.