The hospital administration asks nursing services to assume housekeeping duties from midnight until 6:00 a.m
Nurses are fearful that this is the first step to shifting complete 24-hour-per-day responsibility for housekeeping duties to nursing services. The nurses believe this would take away from their ability to provide quality nursing care to their patients. This scenario is an example of which ethical concept? 1. The MORAL argument
2. Slippery slope thinking
3. Relevance thinking
4. Reluctance model
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Rationale: MORAL is an ethical decision-making model.
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