Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements : Development, Interpretation, and Application / Marsha D.M. Fowler, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fowler, Marsha, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nursing ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 176 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Other Title:

Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements

Place of Publication:

American Nurses Association

Silver Spring, Maryland : American Nurses Association, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The "Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements: Development, Interpretation, and Application, 2nd Edition" is an essential resource for nursing classrooms, in-service training, workshops and conferences, self-study, and wherever nursing professionals use ANA's "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.For convenience of reference, the text of ANA's "Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements" is 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.

Contents:

Intro

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Author's Preface. Review &amp

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

9781558106049

9781558106048

1558106049

9781558106055

1558106057

OCLC:

1519991180