Nurses play a central role in advocating for their patients. In the case of Freda, the moral conflict between the nurse and physician revolves around the implementation of a feeding tube, in which the nurses feel does not respect Freda’s wishes. In utitlitarinism, the beneficence principle means the value of the good (Collier & Haliburton, 2015, p. 440). In Freda’s case she defines good as dying peacefully. In Kantianism, the autonomy principle states that the competent individual has the right to be self-determining (Collier & Haliburton, 2015, p. 440). The physician’s action to place a feeding tube reasonably promotes the well-being or good of Freda’s health, but ignores Freda’s interest prior to her catatonic state, in which she rationally
