The Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements: Development, Interpretation, and Application, 2nd Editionis an essential resource for nursing classrooms, in-service training, workshops and conferences, self-study, and wherever nursing professionals use ANAs Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements in their daily practice. Each chapter of this comprehensively revised text is devoted to a single Code provision, including: Key ethical concepts. Theories and models of ethical decision-making. Historical, professional and societal issues, trends and other influences. Each interpretive statements contribution to interpreting and applying the provision examples and illustrative cases, based on real situations, to facilitate study and discussion. Bibliographic Web links to key national and international documents. For convenience of reference, the text of ANAs Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statementsis included as an appendix. This book will challenge each nurse to achieve deeper professional and personal understanding, and will provide a foundation for professional pride. From the classroom to professional practice, nurses in all roles or settings will find Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses to be a powerful tool for learning how to examine and apply the values, duties, ideals and commitments of their living ethical tradition to their practice. Please read our Terms and Conditions regarding rental books prior to checkout.
Author(s): Marsha Diane Mary Fowler
Edition: 2
Publisher: American Nurses Association
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 252
Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Author’s Preface. Review & Renewal: The Half-Life of a Code
Preface 2015. Nursing’s 2015 Code of Ethics
Preface 2008. The Initiating Edition ofGuide to the Code
Foreword
Introduction.Provisions, Decisions, and Cases: Getting to What is Right and Good
Provision 1 - The nurse practices with compassion and respectfor the inherent dignity, worth, and uniqueattributes of every person.
Provision 2 - The nurse’s primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, community,or population.
Provision 3 - The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protectsthe rights, health, and safety of the patient.
Provision 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.
Provision 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.
Provision 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.
Provision 7 - The nurse, in all roles and settings, advances the profession through research and scholarly inquiry, professional standards development, and thegeneration of both nursing and health policy.
Provision 8 - The nurse collaborates with other health professionals and the public to protect human rights, promote health diplomacy, and reduce health disparities.
Provision 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.
Appendix A. Code of Ethics for Nurses withInterpretive Statements (2015)
Index
