Mhel Anthony Agas BSN-IIC Nurses Code of Ethics SECTION 4. Ethical Principles 1.

Values, customs, and spiritual beliefs held by individuals shall be respected. 2. Individual freedom to make rational and unconstrained decisions shall be respected. 3. Personal information acquired in the process of giving nursing care shall be held in strict confidence.
We need to share with nurses and other healthcare professionals our experiences and thoughts concerning the complexities involved in caring for people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Our hope is to give them some ideas of the range of cultural behaviors and the need to understand people's actions from their own cultural perspective in health and illness.
There are many variables to consider in giving nursing care to a person of a race, religion, or culture different from your own. Respect for the patient, however, is something all aspects of transcultural nursing have in common.

A parent or legal guardian must be accompany that provide a consent for medical treatment and procedures during hospitalization. Apparently in general, that hospital cannot provide a treatment without consent from the parents or legal guardians. You must give your consent (permission) before you receive any type of medical treatment, when they refuse the treatment, there decision must be respected. Confidentiality is the right of an individual to have personal, identifiable medical information kept private. Such information should be available only to the physician of record and other health care and insurance personnel as necessary. Confidentiality means that personal and/or medical information given to a health care provider will not be disclosed to others unless the patient has given informed consent.