The nurse understands that laws and ethics are made in order to maintain order and harmony within society. What is the difference between laws and ethics?
A) Laws are written rules for conduct and actions, and ethics are moral principles and values that guide our behavior.
B) Laws are written to protect society from unsavory people, and ethics are rules for appropriate behavior.
C) Laws are written to ensure appropriate behavior and ethics are to conduct actions.
D) Ethics determine how a client is to be treated, and laws are forms of punishment.
A
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Laws are written rules for conduct and actions and ensure the protection of rights, and ethics are moral principles and values that guide the behavior of honorable people. Ethical standards dictate the rightness or wrongness of human behavior. The other answers do not address this as clearly.
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