Nurse leaders assume the responsibility for ethics to focus on the human element involved in the ethical decision-making process (Marquis & Huston, 2015). Nurse leaders must possess a form of self-awareness regarding their beliefs and values regarding the rights, duties, and goals of human beings (Marquis & Huston, 2015). There are four models of a conceptual framework that can be utilized to assist managers with a systematic approach to an ethical dilemma. The four conceptual frameworks include utilitarianism, duty-based reasoning, rights-based reasoning, and intuitionism (Marquis & Huston, 2015). The guiding force that will be used for the purpose of this paper is the rights-based reasoning. The rights-based reasoning framework values a person’s
