This 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, including: Key ethical concepts. Theories and models of ethical decision-making. Historical, professional and societal issues, trends and other influences. Each interpretive statement’s 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 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 this book 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.

Table of Contents:
Introduction. Provisions, Decisions, and Cases: Getting to What Is Right and Good The Nursing Process, Models of Ethical Decision-Making, and Using the Cases Suggested Questions for Case Discussions Concluding Remarks Provision 1. Affirming Health through Relationships of Dignity and Respect Introduction 1.1 Respect For Human Dignity 1.2 Relationships with Patients 1.3 The Nature of Health 1.4 The Right to Self-Determination 1.5 Relationships with Colleagues and Others Provision 2. The Patient as Nursing’s Foundational Commitment 2.1 Primacy of the Patient's Interests 2.2 Conflict of Interest for Nurses 2.3 Collaboration 2.4 Professional Boundaries Provision 3. Advocacy’s Geography 3.1 Protection of the Rights of Privacy and Confidentiality 3.2 Protection of Human Participants in Research 3.3 Performance Standards and Review Mechanisms 3.4 Professional Responsibility in Promoting a Culture of Safety 3.5 Protection of Patient Health and Safety by Acting on Questionable Practice 3.6 Patient Protection and Impaired Practice Provision 4. The Expectations of Expertise 4.1 Authority, Accountability, and Responsibility 4.2 Accountability for Nursing Judgments, Decisions, and Actions 4.3 Responsibility for Nursing Judgments, Decisions, and Actions 4.4 Assignment and Delegation of Nursing Activities or Tasks Provision 5. The Nurse as Person of Dignity and Worth 5.1 Duties to Self and Others 5.2 Promotion of Personal Health, Safety, and Well-Being 5.3 Preservation of Wholeness of Character 5.4 Preservation of Integrity 5.5 Maintenance of Competence and Continuation of Professional Growth 5.6 Continuation of Personal Growth Provision 6. The Moral Milieu of Nursing Practice 6.1 The Environment and Moral Virtue 6.2 The Environment and Ethical Obligation 6.3 Responsibility for the Healthcare Environment Provision 7. Diverse Contributions to the Profession 7.1 Contributions through Research and Scholarly Inquiry 7.2 Contributions through Developing, Maintaining, and Implementing Professional Practice Standards 7.3 Contributions through Nursing and Health Policy Development Provision 8. Collaboration to Reach for Greater Ends 8.1 Health Is a Universal Right 8.2 Collaboration for Health, Human Rights, and Health Diplomacy 8.3 Obligation to Advance Health and Human Rights and Reduce Disparities 8.4 Collaboration for Human Rights in Complex, Extreme, or Extraordinary Practice Settings Provision 9. Social Justice: Reaching Out to a World in Need of Nursing 9.1 Articulation and Assertion of Values 9.2 Integrity of the Profession 9.3 Integrating Social Justice 9.4 Social Justice in Nursing and Health Policy Appendix A. Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (2015)