Choose a contemporary moral issue in our society and apply the ethical principle of Utilitarianism to approve and be in favor of this moral issue. You must pick a moral issue that you strongly agree with and apply the utilitarian claims to back up your arguments. In addition, you must apply Bentham’s Felicific Calculus. The paper must be done in MLA format with a minimum of 500 words (quotes are not included in the word count). You must read Chapter 2 (Book Ethics) and watch the Week 3 Lectures before you do this paper. You must use at least 3 sources from LIRN, in our library. This assignment is due on Jun 20th, NO LATER than at 11:59 pm. Not applying Utilitarianism or the Felicific Calculus results in an automatic F. Utilitarianism is the ethical theory that the moral worth of an action is only determined by its contribution to overall utility . It is thus a form of consequentialism , meaning that the moral worth of an action is determined by its outcome-the ends justifies the means.  

Create a Power Point Presentation that reviews the major events since the 1990s that led to healthcare reform, including the factors that influenced the adoption of health information technologies and information systems.  Include the regulations that were created as a result.  

Your presentation should meet the following structural requirements:

• Be 7-8 slides in length, not including the cover or reference slides.
• Be formatted according to the APA format.
• Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of four (4) scholarly articles. Two (2) of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but two (2) must be external. 
• Presentation notes are required for each slide and should be put in the notes section to support the slide content. These can be part of the presentation or delivered as a separate document. If you opt for the former, be aware that the presentation cannot be submitted in PDF format, which does not make notes visible to the instructor.
• Utilize the following headings to organize the content in your work:

Introduction
Assessment
Recommendations
Conclusion

No Plagiarism please.

Will need minimum of 300 words, APA Style, double spaced, times new roman, font 12, and and Include: 3 references (2015-2018) with intext citations. 

Topic: Psychosocial Disorders (Substance abuse, dependence, and addictions)

For your assigned topic (Substance abuse, dependence, and addictions)

Discuss the incidence and prevalence of the disorder,

pathophysiology from an advanced practice perspective,

physical assessment and examination, 

evidence-based treatment plan and patient education, 

Follow up and evaluation to assess the efficacy and outcomes of the evidence-based treatment plan for management of an episodic, acute, and chronic case involving the pathology(s) you are sharing.

Comment 1

Scientism may be described as the belief that science is a mean of acknowledging reality and a philosophical thesis which concentrates on facts. Spirituality and religion belief in science but embraces God’s creation ideas. The tension between religion and science falls on the fact that science does not explain everything absolutely. This provides religion an opportunity to fill the gap concerning the ethics and morals (Grove, 2015). A human being is usually terrified of unknown. People want to have an absolute explanation of everything. So both religion and science are important since they offer similar and different explanations people desires. Both acts like a complement of the other one.

Combination of both religion and scientism is ideal in healthcare. Scientism may explain physical technicalities of illness and with evidence based on medication. However, religion plays its role for the patient in case science fails to explain their feeling. For instance, when a patient is hospitalized, they feel hopelessness, and scientifically there is no such explanation. No medication that exists that can make the feeling of hopelessness to disappear. But, patient prayers can help eliminate the feeling of hopelessness (Kanopy, 2014). The fact is that the patient will not get healed since prayer alone may not cure the patient in case there is no absolute factual, scientific probability.

Comment 2

From our assigned readings, one of the topics I found very interesting was the distinction made between medicine and nursing as two separate entities. Medicine focuses on scientific dimensions of the human body; nursing is caring with emphasis on the whole person as embodied (Shelly & Miller, 2006). I think this distinction is important because while medicine is generally based in science and explains the body as an object of function, nursing focuses on the person as a whole and examines and aids the individual’s function through their body. In other words, nursing doesn’t only fixate on the diagnosis or curing of disease or on the progression of healing. Nursing compassionately encompasses the person as a whole to help assist their performance in activities contributing to their individualized health and recovery status. Nursing doesn’t just relate to diagnostic tests and lab values, it takes into consideration a person’s support system, their coping mechanisms, their need for resources, their teaching needs, their cultural and religious backgrounds, etc. This is why nursing is often referred to as both ‘a science and an art’. The application of both scientific medical knowledge and empathetic, compassionate care at the most basic level is what makes nursing a unique profession.