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  • 2025 Code of Ethics for Nurses Provision 5.2

    Examples may include disagreements around when life begins and how life ends. Additional examples include the role of the nurse with respect to mandatory reporting of reproductive healthcare decisions, economically driven care, or gender affirming care. Conscience-based objection is an important right...

  • 2025 Code of Ethics for Nurses Glossary

    associated with their position. Conflicts of interest. Conflicts of interest exist when the primacy of the patient is secondary to, or conflicts with, a personal self-interest of the nurse. Conscience-based objection. The conscience-based refusal (conscientious objection) to participate in a lawfully...

  • 2025 Code of Ethics for Nurses Provision 7.4

    And more. Nurses are encouraged to share their evidence-based knowledge with the public by serving on shared governance boards and professional, governmental, and community-based committees within local, regional, state, national, and global associations as well as practice settings. Foundational... of minimum safe practice should reflect this priority. Nurses in leadership roles should foster institutional policies that empower evidence-based practice and enhance ethical comportment. This includes supporting continuing educational opportunities and dedicated time and resources that allow...

  • 2025 Code of Ethics for Nurses Provision 1.2

    appropriate actions to address the behavior, and provide accurate, evidence-based education and resources. In immediately dangerous situations, the nurse focuses on modifying the harmful behavior to either mitigate or eliminate the risk.

  • 2025 Code of Ethics for Nurses Provision 1.3

    with as much physical, emotional, social, religious, and/or spiritual well-being as possible, aligning with their preferences, values, and determination of quality of life. Nurses lead the implementation of responsible and appropriate evidence-based interventions across the lifespan to optimize the health... Optimal nursing care enables recipients to live with as much physical, emotional, social, religious, and/or spiritual well-being as possible, aligning with their preferences, values, and determination of quality of life. Nurses lead the implementation of responsible and appropriate evidence-based...

  • 2025 Code of Ethics for Nurses Provision 10.3

    and nursing organizations work toward the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN) and other global-based benchmarks as they affect health and well-being. The United Nations SDGs include: The eradication of poverty, hunger, and malnutrition, and the diseases... and nursing organizations work toward the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN) and other global-based benchmarks as they affect health and well-being. The United Nations SDGs include:...

  • 2025 Code of Ethics for Nurses Provision 8.2

    address social and structural determinants of health, nurses must partner directly with communities of interest to advocate for community-based organizations, promote innovative models of care, and advance legislative proposals for safe and sustainable communities for all people. The nurse collaborates... address social and structural determinants of health, nurses must partner directly with communities of interest to advocate for community-based organizations, promote innovative models of care, and advance legislative proposals for safe and sustainable communities for all people.

  • 2025 Code of Ethics for Nurses Provision 10.4

    to pursue expert, evidence-based and ethically-informed care as a core value among the competing values that affect international relations. Care ought not be relegated solely to the domain of individuals and families. Nursing and nurses have a collective obligation to pursue care as a political and social requirement to be shared by all.... expert, evidence-based and ethically-informed care as a core value among the competing values that affect international relations. Care ought not be relegated solely to the domain of individuals and families. Nursing and nurses have a collective obligation to pursue care as a political and social requirement to be shared by all.

  • 2025 Code of Ethics for Nurses Provision 9.5

    Including through robust civic engagement and legislative and political advocacy. Nurses and their representative professional organizations work in concert to study and disseminate values-and evidence-based efforts to promote social justice and advance a nursing agenda in health and social policies... Including through robust civic engagement and legislative and political advocacy. Nurses and their representative professional organizations work in concert to study and disseminate values-and evidence-based efforts to promote social justice and advance a nursing agenda in health and social policies...

  • 2025 Code of Ethics for Nurses Provision 4.4

    of the interprofessional team or any technology-based interface. Employer policies or directives do not relieve the nurse of responsibility for making assignment or delegation decisions. Nurses in leadership roles have a responsibility to foster a safe and ethical environment that supports and facilitates... and evaluation to any non-nurse member of the interprofessional team or any technology-based interface. Employer policies or directives do not relieve the nurse of responsibility for making assignment or delegation decisions.