During a hurricane, there is no electricity in a hospital where floodwater is rapidly rising. An ICU nurse manually ventilates a patient with an ambu bag for 6 hours before she makes the difficult decision to leave her patient and help the solitary remaining nurse carry 12 newborns to safety. The nurse's decision is most clearly supported by which of the following?
A) Deontology
B) Virtue ethics
C) Rationalism
D) Utilitarianism
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Q1: Aristotle developed the concept of:
A) virtue ethics.
B)
Q3: The intense and critical examination of beliefs
Q4: A form of moral theory that embraces
Q5: Who is considered to be the father
Q6: Beauchamp and Childress propose focal virtues that
Q7: The belief that people can figure out
Q8: Ethics is:
A) a formal process of making
Q9: The Kantian maxim requiring that one treat
Q10: Which of the following statements accurately describes
Q11: The Kantian maxim requiring that no action
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