ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses 2025 Provision 1
ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses 2025 Provision 1: The nurse practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and unique attributes of every person. The post today will focus on the inherent dignity of patients. This idea of dignity came through loud and clear in the stories told to me by nurses while completing phenomenological interviews for my dissertation research. The nurses I interviewed spoke about treating patients with dignity, especially in the face of death. (Please refer to my ethics model below the post.) One story that stuck out to me was from a nurse that stayed in the room talking with a patient while working night shift. This patient had cancer and was out of all viable treatment options. The only choice now was to be a part of a new drug trial. The patient did not want to do the trial, but his wife and daughter wanted him to, as his daughter was scheduled to get married the following year. They so desperatel...