Students are required to select the AV resource representative of their own health professional discipline and also view a second one to compare and contrast to their own. Similarities and differences between the two inter-professional responses to the given ethical issue are to be identified and students should discuss how the two professions might interact and collaborate in the given ethical issue in practice

In this final essay, the national HLSC 220 lecturers in charge have agreed that students are able to use the five learning outcomes presented in the unit outline assessment descriptor as headings in their essay. These five points are as follows:nnDiscuss national and international ethical frameworks for health care that influence ethical decision making in practice;nExplain the Code of Ethics relevant to different health disciplines, and identify if there are no such Codes and how this may influence decision making and patient care in scenarios where there is an ethical dilemma.nDifferentiate between ethical and legal issues in health care in consenting vulnerable patients cohortsnIdentify social and spiritual factors that influence the health professional values and beliefs in ethical decision makingnApply ethical normative frameworks that a health professional may appeal to in defending their position, individually and collaboratively, on moral and ethical dilemmas encountered practice