Explain how the nurse practitioner's (NP's) application of virtue ethics may produce actions that are incongruent with a patient's definition of "doing good."

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The Answer is Occasionally, "doing good" for the patient may not be what the patient believes is best, and this is when the integrity of the nurse professional, based on an ethical code, must prevail. For NPs, such situations occur fairly frequently in daily practice; e.g., patients who want narcotics for prolonged periods of time without a known etiology of pain, the neighbor who calls and asks for an antibiotic prescription without being evaluated as a patient of that practitioner's practice setting, and so forth. Many examples serve to illustrate how the patient view and the NP view of "doing good" may collide.

Explain How the Nurse Practitioner's (NP's) Application of Virtue Ethics