The Principle of Beneficence Requires the Nurse To

question 9

Multiple Choice

The principle of beneficence requires the nurse to:

• A) promote harm or evil and do good.
• B) prevent or remove harm and do good.
• C) ask the patient to sign a survey indicating the nurse has been beneficial to his or her care.
• D) avoid harm as a consequence of doing good.

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Definitions:

Sense of Hearing

The ability to perceive sound by detecting vibrations through an organism's auditory system.

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A term used to describe individuals who have a low threshold for pain and experience discomfort more intensely than others.

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Sensory receptors that detect signals from damaged tissue and convey pain signals to the central nervous system.