A nurse decides to use the ethical principle of deontology to make clinical decisions.This principle is based on treating all people the same regardless of circumstances and on one's duty to do the right thing regardless of circumstances.Which situation would most likely cause an ethical dilemma for this nurse?
A) Assisting with a laparoscopy for a tubal pregnancy
B) Refusal of a patient to take his medications
C) Patient reconsiders surgery for cancer
D) Woman refuses to terminate her pregnancy even knowing the fetus has non-life-sustaining defects
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