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the nurse is caring for a patient whose vital signs are not stable and who seems to be nearing the end of life. the provider orders the patient to be placed on life-sustaining treatments, but the nurse questions this order. the nurse is operating within which type of ethical framework?

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Answer: Rights based—deontological

Explanation: Deontology (or Deontological Ethics) is the branch of ethics in which people define what is morally right or wrong by the actions themselves, rather than referring to the consequences of those actions, or the character of the person who performs them.

The word deontology derives from the Greek words for duty (deon) and science (or study) of (logos). In contemporary moral philosophy, deontology is one of those kinds of normative theories regarding which choices are morally required, forbidden, or permitted. In other words, deontology falls within the domain of moral theories that guide and assess our choices of what we ought to do (deontic theories), in contrast to those that guide and assess what kind of person we are and should be (aretaic [virtue] theories).

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