Hospital has established protocols

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Nurse Cathy is working the evening shift on the Medical-Surgical ward. The hospital has established protocols that include nurse-patient ratios should not exceed more than six patients per nurse. There are twenty-three patients on the Med-Surg floor. One nurse called in, leaving three nurses to provide patient care. Describe the ethical principles in tension.

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