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CNOR - Professional Accountability Exam 2025 Questions and Answers Describe the 3 ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence as it relates to perioperative nursing. - ....ANSWER ...-*Autonomy refers to respecting a person as a person and respecting a person's right to selfdetermination. Allowing the patient to make as many autonomous decisions as possible is important, the most important of which is obtaining informed consent from the patient for the procedure to be performed. *Beneficence refers to "doing good" to/for the patient. This encompasses a wide variety of things that the nurse can be involved in such as providing for safety, comfort, proper care, dignity, etc. *Nonmaleficence means to "do no harm." it differs from beneficence in that although a certain action taken by the nurse may do some good to the patient, it may , in turn, actually provide a degree of harm to the patient. In these circumstances, the nurse must be able to weigh any potential benefit to the patient against its risk and make a decision favoring the patient overall. ....COPYRIGHT ©️ 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...TRUSTED & VERIFIED 1