Provision 7
Nurses advance the profession through multiple approaches to knowledge development, professional standards, and the generation of policies for nursing, health, and social concerns.
7.3 Contributions through Developing, Maintaining, and Implementing Professional Practice Standards
Professional practice standards evolve with the ongoing development and implementation of nursing knowledge and must reflect ethical, competent practice. Research, scholarly inquiry, and knowledge generation guide the development of the Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice, which evolve to address advances in ethical reflection, science, technology, and practice. Nursing identifies its own scope of practice shaped by relevant social, cultural, and historical values as well as the profession’s values, as articulated by the Code of Ethics for Nurses (Code) and other foundational documents. Nurses should understand their obligations to the practice environment, profession, and public, informed by nurse practice acts. Nurses who are educators establish and promote standards of education and practice to foster and ensure the development of knowledge, skills, and the moral dispositions essential to nursing.