Monday, October 26, 2015

Nurses must know whats in the revised code of ethics to use it - Source Nurse.com


Source: Nurse.com

Every day, nurses face ethical challenges. The recently revised Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements provides a framework for addressing concerns inherent in the profession.
“The kinds of quandaries nurses face are broad and far reaching,” said Cynda Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN, a professor of nursing and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University and the Anne and George L. Bunting professor of Clinical Ethics at Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics in Baltimore. “Because of their proximity to patients, they see in an intimate way the consequences of the therapies and often the suffering of their patients.”

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https://news.nurse.com/2015/10/19/nurses-must-know-whats-in-revised-code-of-ethics-to-use-it/

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