The nurse is to administer a potassium supplement to the client and does not check the potassium level prior to administering the medication and later finds that the potassium level was at a critical high which means that the nonmaleficence principle was violated which is denoted as option B.
<h3>What is Nonmaleficence? </h3>
This refers to the duty of a professional such as healthcare workers in ensuring that there is no harm done to the client or patient.
In this scenario, negligence caused the nurse to administer a medication which had a critically high amount of potassium which is harmful to the body.
This is therefore the reason why nonmaleficence was chosen as the correct choice.
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The options are
- autonomy
- nonmaleficence
- beneficence
- fidelity
