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
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.
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