NSG 3127 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Professional Responsibility, Pressure Ulcer, Moral Agency
2 Apr 2018
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Cna code of ethics for rns (talk by lisa ashley) What is the code of ethics: public statement of ethics values shared by rns in canada. It provides guidance and direction on practicing ethically and working through ethical challenges in practice. It is a resource to be used in conjunction with other professional standards, laws and regulations. Code of ethics and regulation: the code is to be used in conjunction with professional standards, laws, and regulations, codes inform nurses, and the public of the ethics values and standards nurses are expected to uphold. Creating a balanced code: can creates a code which functions both as a regulatory and aspirational tool, by organizing the code in two parts, nursing values and ethical responsibilities, ethical enedavours. 7 primary values in the code: providing safe, competent and ethical care, promote health and well-being, promoting choice, honouring dignity, maintaining confidentiality, promoting justice, being accountable.
