: Legal and Ethical Considerations Halter: Varcarolis’ Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach, 8th Edition MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Which action by a psychiatric nurse best applies the ethical principle of autonomy? a. Exploring alternative solutions with the patient, who then makes a choice. b. Suggesting that two patients who were fighting be restricted to the unit. c. Intervening when a self-mutilating patient attempts to harm self. d. Staying with a patien...