The Code of Ethics is based on a body of moral and ethical principles. These principles have been translated into statements of standards which will guide the nursing integrity and their conduct while students’ engaged in learning within the nursing program and later as a nurse in practice. Conduct violating these statements will constitute reason for departmental warning or for departmental withdrawal from the nursing program. American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses (ANA, 2015) Provisions: 1. The nurse practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and unique attributes of every person. 2. The primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, nurse’s group, community or population. 3. The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of the patient. 4. The nurse has authority, accountability, and responsibility for nursing practice; makes decisions; and takes action consistent with the obligation to promote health and to provide optimal care. 5. The nurse owes the same duties to self as to others, including the responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve wholeness of character and integrity, maintain competence, and continue personal and professional growth. 6. The nurse, through individual and collective effort, establishes, maintains, and improves the ethical environment of the work setting and conditions of employment that are conducive to safe, quality health care. 7. The nurse, in all roles and settings, advances the profession through research and scholarly inquiry, professional standards development, and the generation of both nursing and health policy. 8. The nurse collaborates with other health professionals and the public to protect human rights, promote health diplomacy, and reduce health disparities. 9. The profession of nursing, collectively through its professional organizations, must articulate nursing values, maintain the integrity of the profession, and integrate principles of social justice into nursing and health policy.
The Code of Ethics is based on a body of moral and ethical principles. These principles have been translated into statements of standards which will guide the nursing students’ integrity and their conduct while engaged in learning within the nursing program and later as a nurse in practice. Conduct violating these statements will constitute reason for departmental warning or for departmental withdrawal from the nursing program. American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses (ANA, 2015) Provisions: 1. The nurse practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and unique attributes of every person. 2. The nurse’s primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, community or population. 3. The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of the patient. 4. The nurse has authority, accountability, and responsibility for nursing practice; makes decisions; and takes action consistent with the obligation to promote health and to provide optimal care. 5. The nurse owes the same duties to self as to others, including the responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve wholeness of character and integrity, maintain competence, and continue personal and professional growth. 6. The nurse, through individual and collective effort, establishes, maintains, and improves the ethical environment of the work setting and conditions of employment that are conducive to safe, quality health care. 7. The nurse, in all roles and settings, advances the profession through research and scholarly inquiry, professional standards development, and the generation of both nursing and health policy. 8. The nurse collaborates with other health professionals and the public to protect human rights, promote health diplomacy, and reduce health disparities. 9. The profession of nursing, collectively through its professional organizations, must articulate nursing values, maintain the integrity of the profession, and integrate principles of social justice into nursing and health policy.
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