NCM 208 Bioethics MIDTERM
NCM 208 Bioethics MIDTERM
PRINCIPLES OF FIDELITY
● Refers to the concept of faithfulness to our duties,
obligations, vows, or pledges
● Refers to one’s loyalty to a worthy cause
● Telling the truth as the situation demands it
● Keeping actual and implicit promises, and not
representing fiction as truth
○ Ex. Patient: “Nurse, may I know my lab results”
Nurse replies “I'll get back to you ma'am”
But the shift of the nurse has passed and she
did not get back…
○ The nurse may have forgotten to do it because
she had several patients or she did not do it.