Bioethics Patient’s Bill of Rights - NCM 108

The nurse has the responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve wholeness of character, maintain competence, and continue personal and professional growth.

Nurses do not contribute to the establishment, maintenance, and improvement of the ethical environment in the workplace.

Nurses do not advance the profession through research, scholarly inquiry, and professional standards development.

Nurses do not collaborate with other health professionals and the public to protect human rights and reduce health disparities.

The nursing profession does not need to integrate principles of social justice into nursing and health policy.

Ethical distress occurs when nurses have a personal agreement with all types of care they are ethically obliged to provide.

Nurses may experience ethical distress when they have to provide care that goes against their personal beliefs.

One key responsibility of nursing is to perform laboratory tests for accurate diagnosis.

Advocacy is not considered a key role in nursing practice.

Nurses are mainly responsible for shaping health policy and management of healthcare systems.

Educating patients and their families is not a key role of nursing practice.

In emergency cases, blind patients are allowed to refuse informed consent.

The nurse's primary commitment is to the community.

Nurses must promote, advocate for, and protect the rights, health, and safety of the patient.

Illiterate patients are exempt from informed consent in emergency cases.

The patient's bill of rights includes the right to choose a healthcare provider and facility.

The nursing code of ethics consists of eight provisions.