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Title: The ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses


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Code of Ethics for Nursing Students and for
Nurses
Dr. Aidah Alkaissi An-Najah National
Univrsity Faculty of Nursing
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Ethics of Nursing
  • Ethics includes values, codes, and principles
    that govern decisions in nursing practice and
    relationships
  • Nursing Ethics is the discipline of evaluating
    the merits, risks, and social concerns of
    activities in the field of nursing
  • Ethical principles are necessary to guide to
    professional development

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Code of Ethics for Nursing Students Code of
Academic and Clinical Conduct
  • The code of Academic and Clinical conduct is
    based on an understanding that to practice
    nursing as a student is an agreement to uphold
    the trust with which society has placed in us

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A CODE FOR NURSING STUDENTS
  • Advocate the rights of all clients
  • Maintain client confidentiality
  • Take appropriate action to ensure the safety of
    clients, self , and others
  • Provide care for the client in a timely,
    compassionate and professional manner

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A CODE FOR NURSING STUDENTS
  • Communicate client care in a truthful
  • Promote excellence in nursing by encouraging
    lifelong learning and professional development

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A CODE FOR NURSING STUDENTS
  • Treat others with respect and promote environment
    that respects human rights, values, an choice of
    cultural and spiritual beliefs
  • Collaborate in every reasonable manner with the
    academic faculty and clinical staff to ensure the
    highest quality of client care
  • Use every opportunity to improve faculty and
    clinical staff understanding of the learning
    needs of nursing students

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A CODE FOR NURSING STUDENTS
  • Encourage faculty, clinical staff, and peers to
    mentor nursing students
  • Refrain from performing any technique or
    procedure for which the student has not been
    adequately trained
  • Refrain from any deliberate action or omission of
    care in the academic or clinical setting that
    creates unnecessary risk of injury to client,
    self or others

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A CODE FOR NURSING STUDENTS
  • Assist in ensuring that there is full disclosure
    and that consent is obtained from clients
    regarding any form of treatment or research
  • Abstain from the use of alcoholic beverages or
    any substances in the academic and clinical
    setting that impair judgment

9
Principles of Health Care Ethics
  • Beneficence means doing or promoting good in
    such a manner as to safeguard and promote the
    interest and well being of patients and clients
  • Nonmaleficence means to avoid doing harm, to
    remove from harm, and to prevent harm
  • Harm can be physical and so include pain,
    disability, discomfort and death but it can also
    be psychological and thus include mental stress

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Principles of Health Care Ethics
  • Autonomy and consent Principles of self
    determination
  • The cardinal principles of autonomy
  • The right to full disclosure- the right to know
  • The right to privacy
  • The right to receive care and treatment
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Principles of Health Care Ethics
  • Justice The principle of fairness is the basis
    for the obligation to treat all clients equally
    and fairly
  • Veracity telling the truth. Clients prefer to
    receive accurate information about their
    conditions and prognosis even when the outlook is
    bleak

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Principles of Health Care Ethics
  • Privacy
  • To ensure that the patients body is appropriate
    covered
  • To establish a culture of privacy to ensure that
    personal information of patients is kept as
    private as possible

13
Principles of Health Care Ethics
  • Confidentiality
  • To preserving the human dignity of patients
  • Discussing clients outside the clinical setting,
    telling friends or family about clients, or even
    discussing clients in the elevator with other
    workers violates client confidentiality and must
    be a voided

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Principles of Health Care Ethics
  • Responsibility A nurse, who neglects to give a
    patient pain relief can be said to have caused
    that patient harm
  • Proving negligence (i.e. that the nurse is
    legally responsible)
  • It is not only human beings who can cause
    something to happen, since conditions (e.g. staff
    shortages, poor equipment, inadequate resources,
    and so forth) may also cause accidents or result
    in a patient being injured

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Principles of Health Care Ethics
  • Accountability
  • Is about justifying actions, explaining why
    something was (or was not) done
  • The purpose of calling people to account for
    their actions is therefore to establish whether
    they had good enough reasons for acting in the
    way they did

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Principles of Health Care Ethics
  • FIDELITY
  • The professionals faithfulness or loyalty to
    agreements responsibilities accepted as part of
    the practice of the profession

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Be competent in your practice
  • The nurses are always responsible for their
    behaviours
  • Has to refuse to perform procedures for which
    they havent been prepared
  • Ignorance isnt a legal defence. Neither will
    lack of sleep or overwork be accepted as a legal
    reason for carelessness about safety measures or
    mistakes

18
The ICN- Code of Ethics for Nurses (2006)
  • Nurses have four fundamental responsibilities
  • To promote health
  • To prevent illness
  • To restore health
  • To alleviate suffering

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The ICN Code of Ethics
  • Nursing care is respectful of and unrestricted by
    considerations of age, color, creed, culture,
    disability or illness, gender, sexual
    orientation, nationality, politics, race or
    social status

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NURSES AND PEOPLE
  • The nurse shares with society the responsibility
    for initiating and supporting action to meet the
    health and social needs of the public, in
    particular those of vulnerable populations
  • The nurse also shares responsibility to sustain
    and protect the natural environment from
    depletion, pollution, degradation and destruction

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NURSES AND THE PROFESSION
  • The nurse is active in developing a core of
    research-based professional knowledge
  • The nurse, acting through the professional
    organization, participates in creating and
    maintaining safe, equitable social and economic
    working conditions in nursing

22
Future ImplicationsPlease take with you home and
discuss it with your colleagues
  • Scientific research over the past two decades has
    resulted in rapidly developing technology,
    greatly altering health care and medical and
    nursing practice
  • Research has forced health care providers to
    address such issues as
  • Who should receive the benefits of technology
  • What are the long-term results of life-supporting
    and life-extending procedures
  • What kind of future generations we are preparing

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Future Implications
  • Having addressed these issues, can we say that
    our decisions are ethical?
  • What will be the ultimate cost in consumer
    health?
  • What will be the actual cost to society?
  • Where do nursing responsibilities lie?

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Future Implications
  • To ensure the best possible consumer health care
    in the future, physicians and nurses will have to
    forge a closer, more collegial relationship
  • Such a relationship will demand a high order of
    ethical and professional obligation

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Thank You
Thank You
ICN
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