6.2. Types of Ethics 

• Descriptive: It is the description of the values and beliefs of various cultural, religious or social groups about health and illness. 
• Normative: a study of human activities in a broad sense in an attempt to identify human actions that are right or wrong and good and bad qualities. In nursing normative ethics addresses: scope of practice of different categories of nurses and, level of competence expected. 
• Analytical: analyzes the meaning of moral terms. It seeks the reasons why these action or attitudes are either wrong or right.