Provision 2 of the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses
"Provision 2: A nurse's primary commitment is to the recipient(s) of nursing care, whether an individual, family, group, community, or population" (ANA, 2025, p. 5). ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses According to the 2025 edition of the Code of Ethics for Nurses, this provision includes four areas: a primary commitment to recipients of nursing care; conflicts of interest and conflicts of commitment in nursing; professional boundaries; and issues of safety in the nurse-patient relationship (pp. 5-7). My dissertation, The experience of accelerated nursing program graduates utilizing ethics in their nursing practice Reading through this provision made me think of an example from my doctoral research. As written in my dissertation (McLaughlin, 2016) on pages 62-63: Catherine mentioned breaches in integrity such as students cheating in her accelerated program to achieve good grades, and a clinical faculty member breaking technique. This faculty member broke s...