When providing preoperative teaching for a care recipient who will be undergoing total knee arthroplasty, the nurse asks the care recipient questions to assess his understanding of the surgery.Which type of ethics is the nurse implementing?

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Preventive ethics aims to forestall ethical problems before they develop.Preventive ethics is an important requirement of health-promotion endeavors that includes individual action by the nurse, as well as social and political activism with other nurses or professional nursing organizations.Assessing the care recipient's understanding of what is going to happen during a surgical procedure before the care recipient signs the consent for the procedure makes sure the care recipient understands the information and should help prevent ethical problems.

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