When dealing with an ethical decision regarding a complex client-care issue, the nurse uses the traditional approach instead of the theoretical approach to assist in decision making.
Which concept is used frequently in the traditional approach to ethical decision making and is defined as acting to bring about the greatest good?
A)
Contextualism
B)
Principalism
C)
Deontology
D)
Utilitarianism
Question 2
A client wishes to have hospital personnel provide only comfort measures to her as she is dying from cancer. The nurse uses which of the following moral principles central to nursing?
A)
Beneficence (to do good)
B)
Compassion (caring)
C)
Double effect (lesser evil)
D)
Principalism (orientation)
Decision Making
NURSE CARING BEHAVIORS AS
What is Hospice Care?
Removing the sheet from underneath the client.
DNA bending in an open-promoter complex
Client positioned and draped