The principle of beneficence requires the nurse to:
a. promote harm or evil and do good.
b. prevent or remove harm and do good.
c. ask the patient to sign a survey indicating the nurse has been beneficial to his or her care.
d. avoid harm as a consequence of doing good.
B
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