A nurse manager determines the work shifts for the staff based on predetermined health care facility guidelines. This is an example of what type of decision making?
A. rule-utilitarianism
B. act-utilitarianism
C. duty-oriented
D. deontological
E. virtue ethics
A. rule-utilitarianism
In rule-utilitarianism, a person makes value decisions based on a rule, that if generally followed would produce the greatest balance of good over evil, everyone considered. In act-utilitarianism, a person makes value decisions based on results that will produce the greatest balance of good over evil, everyone considered. Deontological or duty-oriented theory focuses on the essential rightness or wrongness of an act, not the consequences of the act.
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