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The
ICN
code
of
ethics
for
nurse
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Amer
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Nurse
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Assoc
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Code
For
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Canad
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Code
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Codes of Ethics
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Overview
References.
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Codes of Ethics
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The ICN code of ethics for nurses
Preamble:
The Code:-
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Provide continuing Provide teaching Lobby for
education in ethical and learning involvement of
issues. opportunities for nurses in ethics
ethical issues and review
decision making. committees.
Provide sufficient Provide
information to teaching/learning Provide
permit informed opportunities guidelines,
consent and the right related to position
informed consent. statements and
to choose or refuse continuing
treatment. education related
Introduce into
Use recording curriculum to informed
and information concepts of consent.
management privacy and Incorporate issues
systems that confidentiality. of confidentiality
ensure and privacy into a
confidentiality. national code of
ethics for nurses.
Develop and Sensitize students
monitor to the importance
environmental of social action in Advocate for
safety in the current concerns. safe and
workplace. healthy
environment.
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Element of the Code # 2 : Nurses And Practice
Practitioners and Educators and National Nurses'
Managers Researchers Associations
Establish standards of care Provide teaching/learning Provide access to
and a work setting that opportunities that foster continuing education,
promotes quality care. life long learning and through journals,
competence for practice. conferences, distance
education, etc.
Establish systems for Conduct and disseminate Lobby to ensure
professional appraisal, research that shows links continuing education
continuing education and between continual learning opportunities and quality
systematic renewal of and competence to practice. care standards.
licensure to practice.
Monitor and promote the Promote the importance of Promote healthy lifestyles
personal health of nursing Personal health and for nursing professionals.
staff in relation to their illustrate its relation to other Lobby for healthy
competence for practice. values. workplaces and services
for nurses.
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Element of the Code #4 : Nurses And Co-Workers
Managers Associations
Create awareness of Develop understanding of Stimulate co-operation
specific and overlapping the roles of other workers. with other related
functions and the potential disciplines.
for interdisciplinary
tensions.
Develop workplace Communicate nursing Develop awareness of
systems that support ethics to other professions. ethical issues of other
common professional professions.
ethical values and
behavior.
Develop mechanisms to Instill in learners the need Provide guidelines, position
Safeguard the individual, to safeguard the individual, statements and discussion
family or community when family or community when for related to safeguarding
their care is endangered by care is endangered by people when their care is
health care personnel. health care endangered by health care
Personnel. personnel.
The ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses is a guide for action based on
social values and needs. It will have meaning only as a living document if
applied to the realities of nursing and health care in a changing society.
The four elements of the ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses: nurses
and people, nurses and practice, nurses and co-workers, and nurses and
the profession, give a framework for the standards of conduct. The
following chart will assist nurses to translate the standards into action.
Nurses and nursing students can therefore:
• Study the
standards under each element of the Code.
• Reflect on what each standard means to you. Think about how you
can apply ethics in your nursing domain: practice, education,
research or management.
Preamble:
1. The nurse provides services with respect for human dignity and
the uniqueness of the client, unrestricted by considerations of
social or economic status, personal attributes, or the nature of
health problems.
The nurse's respect for the worth and dignity of the individual
human being applies, irrespective of the nature of the health problem. It is
reflected in care given the person who is disabled as well as one without
disability, the person with long-term illness as well as one with acute
illness, the recovering patient as well as one in the last phase of life. This
respect extends to all who require the services of the nurse for the
promotion of health, the prevention of illness, the restoration of health,
the alleviation of suffering, and the provision of supportive care of the
dying. The nurse does not act deliberately to terminate the life of any
person.
The rights, well being, and safety of the individual client should be
the determining factors in arriving at any professional judgment
concerning the disposition of confidential information received from the
client relevant to his or her treatment.
3. The nurse acts to safeguard the client and the public when health
care and safety are affected by incompetent, unethical, or illegal
practice by any person.
3. the emergency nurse acts to protect the individual when health care
and safety threatened by the incompetent, unethical or illegal
practice of any person.