A nurse has had, on several occasions, the opportunity to share personal prescriptions with family members when they were in need of pain medication or antibiotics. Which set of rules should govern this moral decision?
A) Ethics
B) Administrative law
C) Common law
D) Civil law
Ans: A
Although all of the options may affect your decision, moral decisions are guided by ethics, which are internal set of principles and values that guide the behavior of a person. Sharing medications prescribed to you with other people, including family members, would be considered unethical. It is important to distinguish ethics from law, religion, custom, and institutional practices. For example, the fact that an action is legal or customary does not in itself make the action ethically or morally right.
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