PURPOSE AND 
      EVOLUTION OF THE 
      CODE AND 
      PROVISIONS 1-3, 
      NURSES AND 
      PATIENTS                                 Slide Deck 1
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    Provisions 1-3, Nurses and 
    Patients
    What do we mean by nurses and patients?
    Provisions 1-3 address direct patient care and 
    describe the most fundamental values and 
    commitments of the nurse. 
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     Scope of Nursing Ethics
     Unless separately referenced, all content comes from ANA’s 
     Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements, 2015 
     (“the Code”) OR Fowler, M. D.M. (2015). Guide to the code of 
     ethics for nurses: Development, application, and interpretation 
       nd
     (2  Ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Association.
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       What Is Ethics?
        A specialized area of philosophy 
           dating back to ancient Greece 
           and earlier
            Concepts of Hippocrates still inform 
             today’s ethical issues.
        A systematic study of what is 
           right and good measured against 
           principles, virtues and core 
           values of a profession.
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    Scope of Nursing Ethics
     Deals with:
      Character (what sort of person one ought to be)
      Conduct (how one should act) 
     Deals with duties and obligations of nurses 
     to:
      Patients
      Other health professionals
      The profession
      The wider public
      Global humanity
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