Deontology argument on the statement provided in the order instructions

Driving privileges for the patients with uncontrolled diabetics
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Driving privileges for the patients with uncontrolled diabetes
Deontologists focus on the rightness or wrongness of action as opposed to the rightness or wrongness of an outcome (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2016). Therefore, a deontologist cannot celebrate the consequence without analyzing the action that brought up the action. In other words, a bad action can bring out a good outcome, and also a good action cannot result in a bad consequence. Deontological ethics contrast the consequential ethics, which emphasizes the outcome of an action rather than the morality of the action. As such, they disregard the process and only concentrate on the results. In other words, the end justifies the means. Therefore, in analyzing this argument, using the deontological approach, actions will take priority over their associated consequences. The morality of the actions will be thoroughly examined, while the morality of their related outcomes will be disregarded.
Unlike the consequentialists, deontologists emphasize the process. As such, in this case, the actions of controlling the driving privileges of people with diabetes and also reporting their cases to the department of motor vehicle (DMV), require a thorough analysis. First, the act of controlling the driving privileges of the diabetic people is discriminatory. Discrimination is morally wrong, regardless of how or why it is done (Butts, 2017.

Every citizen has a right not to be discriminated against even if the discrimination causes happiness to many people and harms few people in the society.
Again, nurses are required by the nursing ethics not to disclose the patient’s information to the third parties, without the patient consent (Butts, 2017). Therefore, reporting the diabetic patients, whose sugar levels in the body fluctuate rapidly to DMV, undermines the nursing practice ethics. Additionally, since, the relationship between the nurse and the patient is purely based on trust, it is broken. On the other hand, the patients’ conditions may worsen, since they will be unable to share their problems with any other medical practitioner. Therefore, according to the deontological ethics, nurses should not report diabetic people to DMV and the privileges of the diabetic people should not be controlled.

References
Butts, J.B. (2017). “ Ethics in Professional Nursing Practice.” Retrieved from http://samples.jbpub.com/9781284059502/Chapter_3_Sample.pdf
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2016). “The deontological Ethics.” Retrieved from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/