A nurse's excessive attention to cost containment impairs the ...

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A nurse's excessive attention to cost containment impairs the nurse's duty to provide measures to improve health. Which of the following ethical principles is being influenced?
 
  a. Autonomy
  b. Beneficence
  c. Veracity
  d. Nonmaleficence

Question 2

Care in a managed system is provided by less experienced providers. Which of the following ethical principles is being influenced in this situation?
 
  a. Autonomy
  b. Beneficence
  c. Nonmaleficence
  d. Justice

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
Beneficence is influenced when excessive attention to cost containment supersedes or impairs the nurse's duty to provide measures to improve health or relieve suffering. Autonomy is the indi-vidual's right to choose a provider. Veracity is truth telling which is important to building trust-ing relationships with clients. Nonmaleficence is doing no harm, which is addressed when incor-porating outcomes measures, evidence-based practice, and monitoring processes in plans of care.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
Justice calls for equal distribution of health care with reasonable quality. Autonomy is the indi-vidual's right to choose a provider. Beneficence is influenced when excessive attention to cost containment supersedes or impairs the nurse's duty to provide measures to improve health or re-lieve suffering. Nonmaleficence is doing no harm, which is addressed when incorporating out-comes measures, evidence-based practice, and monitoring processes in plans of care.