As a student, you have learned that your duty as a nurse is to do good to others and maintain a balance between those items that may cause harm and those that may cause good. Which ethical principle is this behavior based on?
a. Fidelity c. Beneficence
b. Nonmaleficence d. Veracity
C
The ethical principle of beneficence concerns the duty to "do good" to others and to maintain a balance
between benefits and harms. Examples of this would be to provide all patients with caring attention
and to treat everyone with respect and courtesy. Nonmaleficence concerns the principle of doing no
harm, and veracity deals with the obligation to tell the truth.
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