The staff cannot reach an agreement on what is the right thing to do in relation to a specific patient.Which of the following approaches should the nurse use in personally deciding what is right?

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One of the rules in deontological decision making is to determine whether the proposed actions can be generalized so that all persons in similar situations are treated similarly.In the same way,principlism suggests the nurse examine the context and make the decision that can be morally justified within that context.In order to apply the deontological ethics decision process the nurse must first determine the moral rules that serve as standards by which individuals can perform their moral obligations,examine their own personal motives,and then determine wheter the proposed actions can be generalized.Doing whatever will not get the nurse in trouble,whatever is suppported by an ethical expert,or whatever the nurse supervisor feels comfortable with is not an appropriate way to make an ethical decision.

The Staff Cannot Reach an Agreement on What Is the Right