This module introduces quaternary prevention and addresses the role of nurses in situations where individuals and families may be suffering. Principles of ethics are revisited as related to suffering
1. Discuss types of suffering.
2. Address the role of nursing in situations of suffering.
3. Introduce quaternary prevention as it relates to nursing practice.
4. Apply the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements in situations of suffering.
5. Consider informed risk, autonomy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence in difficult situations.
