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A community health nurse has to start an intravenous therapy on a client, which requires the placement of an intravenous catheter. The client asks the community health nurse whether this will be a painful procedure because the client has never had the procedure before. The nurse explains to the client that the procedure will be uncomfortable while the needle is being inserted. What ethical principle is the nurse practicing?