A nurse is having difficulty with the decision for aggressive cancer therapy in an elderly client, wondering if the therapy will actually be more harmful than the disease and knowing that the client will be subjected to harmful chemicals. This nurse is struggling with which of the following principles?

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Non-maleficence is the principle of doing no harm to the patient. The nurse's concern about the potential harm that aggressive cancer therapy could cause the elderly client shows that the nurse is struggling with this principle.

A Nurse Is Having Difficulty with the Decision for Aggressive