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Nina the New Nurse is taking part in a collaborative interdisciplinary team meeting. Together, the group is working to determine the best course of action for a 54-year-old client with terminal pancreatic cancer and metastasis to the lungs and brain. The family of the client is also present. At issue is the question of continuing aggressive medical treatment or beginning hospice care. This is an example of:
  1. Descriptive ethics.
  2. Metaethics.
  3. Normative ethics.
Explanation
Answer: C - Situations requiring ethical decision-making are known as normative ethics. Normative ethics is one of three main areas of philosophical ethics. The area of normative ethics deals with questions about what is right, good, or moral.
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