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altibaby

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Abandoning a client would be an example of a nurse's failure to professionally display:
 
  1. Justice
  2. Fidelity
  3. Beneficence
  4. Nonmaleficence

Question 2

The nursing professional code of ethics is best defined as:
 
  1. The criteria for judging nursing professionalism
  2. A benchmark for professional nursing deeds and actions
  3. The nursing profession's expectations of its members' behavior
  4. A document that holds nurses responsible for professional behavior



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: 2
Fidelity refers to the agreement to keep promises. A commitment to fidelity supports the reluc-tance to abandon clients. The remaining options refer to fairness, kindness, and doing no harm.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: 3
It is a collective statement about the group's expectations and standards of behavior. The re-maining options are not accurate or complete descriptions of the nursing professional code of ethics.



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