The nurse is assisting with a clinical drug trial to test the safe dose of an analgesic medication and learns that subjects have been told that the study is about measuring the analgesic effects. Which ethical principle has been violated?
a. Beneficence
b. Justice
c. Respect for persons
d. Veracity
ANS: D
Veracity requires health care professionals to tell the truth.
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