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