orrect Answer + Rationale?  Subject: Nursing Leadership and Management Situation:  On admission at the emergency room, the client is perspiring profusely, breathing hardly and complaining of dizziness and palpitations. The nurse on duty left the room to call the doctor. Which of the following principles apply to the action of the nurse to refrain from discussing the disease condition of the patient with those who are not involved in his care? * a. Beneficence b. Justice c. Non-maleficence d. Autonomy

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Subject: Nursing Leadership and Management

Situation:  On admission at the emergency room, the client is perspiring profusely, breathing hardly and complaining of dizziness and palpitations. The nurse on duty left the room to call the doctor.

Which of the following principles apply to the action of the nurse to refrain from discussing the disease condition of the patient with those who are not involved in his care? *

a. Beneficence
b. Justice
c. Non-maleficence
d. Autonomy

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