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A PHN Is Presenting a Guest Lecture to an Undergraduate

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A PHN is presenting a guest lecture to an undergraduate ethics class. The PHN is describing the ethical question of whether providing culturally inappropriate care violates the principle that nurses should only act in his or her patient's best interests. This is also known as:

Definitions:

Smallpox

A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever, weakness, and skin eruptions, eradicated by vaccination by 1980.

Subsistence

The act or reality of sustaining or upholding oneself, particularly at the most basic level.

Domestication

The process by which humans modify the genetic traits of plants and animals to make them more useful and suited for human purposes, often leading to symbiotic relationships.

Irish Potato Famine

A period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1849, caused by a potato disease that led to crop failure.