A nurse who works on a palliative care unit has participated in several clinical scenarios that have required the application of ethics. Ethics is best defined as
A) The relationship between law and culture
B) Moral values that are considered to be universal
C) The principles that determine whether an act is right or wrong
D) The laws that govern acceptable and unacceptable behavior
D
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Ethics involves moral or philosophical principles that direct actions as being either right or wrong. Laws are often rooted in ethics, but the two terms are not synonymous. Similarly, morals and values are closely associated with ethics, but these do not constitute the definition of ethics. Ethics are not universally agreed upon, as many different applications exist.
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