Every person has moral values ​​and follows some kind of personalized moral code. Nursing assistants and other professionals have a duty to care for their patients/clients, assist those in need and to be held accountable. Based on the mentioned scenario, the parent is considered a thief because he took the drugs from the hospital without any consent or proof of purchase. Is this scenario cut, dry and simple? Using Kant's theory of ethics, you can easily say that the actions of the parent in the scenario were not justified. Kant's idea is that the categorical imperative should be used as a tool to determine right or wrong actions. Overall, it basically states that you shouldn't do actions that you wouldn't want to be universal law. In essence, you basically shouldn't do anything that you wouldn't want someone else to do. Thinking back to universal law, based on Kant's theory, his approach when referring to theft would be that stealing is bad and unacceptable, whatever the case may be. The problem with this theory is that3 it leaves no room for the unknown, variables, or life-threatening situations. The decisions we make in life are not simply put as in Kant's theory of ethics..