If It Is Newsworthy, It Is Ethics-Worthy: Living in the Code of Ethics for Nurses

The American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements provides guidance for all nurses, in all roles and in all settings. Familiarity with the provisions and the interpretive statements improves our ethical awareness and our ethical competence. Current events in our communities and across the globe require a response from nurses individually and collectively. Living in the Code enables us to form responses that are ethically sound. Advancing the profession through scholarly inquiry and establishing moral communities are other obligations that can be achieved by living in the Code.