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ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses – establishes that anurse’s primary focus is to protect the patient’s health,safety and rights. Ethical principles such as justice,beneficence, and patient autonomy should drivenursing practice, along with the virtues such as honesty,compassion, courage, wisdom, confidentialityand respect for privacy.Magnet Nursing – Code of EthicsANA Code of EthicsProvision 1: The nurse, in all professional relationships,practices with compassion and respect for theinherent dignity, worth, and uniqueness of everyindividual, unrestricted by considerations of social oreconomic status, personal attributes, or the nature ofhealth problems.Provision 2: The nurse’s primary commitment is tothe patient, whether an individual, family, group orcommunity.Provision 3: The nurse promotes, advocates for, andstrives to protect the health, safety, and rights of thepatient.Provision 4: The nurse is responsible and accountablefor individual nursing practice and determinesthe appropriate delegation of tasks consistent withthe nurse’s obligation to provide optimum patientcare.Provision 5: The nurse owes the same duties to selfas to others, including the responsibility to preserveintegrity and safety, to maintain competence, and tocontinue personal and professional growth.Provision 6: The nurse participates in establishing,maintaining competence, and to continue personaland professional growth.56s