A patient approaches you as you are about to leave to attend a mandatory. The patient asks if you would be able to answer some questions about his medication
You politely tell the patient that you have to attend a mandatory meeting and promise to talk with him when you return in an hour. Once you return from the meeting, you complete your assigned nursing care, chart on the patients, and leave for home. While watching your favorite TV program that evening, you remember that you never returned to discuss the medications with the patient who had approached you that morning. Which ethical principle have you violated? a. Autonomy c. Veracity
b. Fidelity d. Justice
B
Fidelity is the principle of promise keeping, or the duty to keep one's promise or word. While you
were not lying to the patient and had all intentions of talking with him, you failed to keep your
promise.
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