A Community Health Nurse Found a Very Small Number of Families

A community health nurse found a very small number of families in the community who were desperately in need of basic preventive health services. Which of the following ethical approaches supports expending agency resources on these few, but needy, families?

A) Beneficence suggests focusing on the most needy, so resources should be expended on these families.
B) Deontological ethics suggest that the nurse must give priority to the intervention that would have the broadest impact.
C) Utilitarianism (the most good for the largest number) would suggest continuing to focus on broader community needs.
D) Virtue ethics would suggest focusing on these families to support the nurse's own character development.