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Ethics and Human Rights
ANA successfully champions professional nursing excellence through standards, code of ethics and professional development, such as credentialing and lifelong learning. The Code of Ethics was initiated by the ANA Board of Directors and the Congress on Nursing Practice in 1995. The goal of ANA is to develop and disseminate the cornerstone work of ANA, such as standards,guidelines, principles, Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements, Nursing’s Social Policy Statement to the public and the profession.

These are the position statements from ANA regarding Ethics and Human Rights. Background information regarding each of these statements is available to ANA Members Only. Login required.


The Nurse’s Role In Ethics And Human Rights: Protecting AndPromoting Individual Worth, Dignity, And Human Rights In Practice Settings - June 14, 2010
Respect for the inherent worth, dignity, and human rights of every individual is a fundamental principle that underlies all nursing practice. “Nurses take into account the needs and values of all persons in all professional relationships” (American Nurses Association [ANA], 2001, p. 7). This statement onethics and human rights provides the foundation and context for all other position statements related to the practice of nursing. The protection and promotion of human rights related to health and health care is a fundamental function of the American Nurses Association. Background Info

Nurses' Role in Capital Punishment - 1/28/10
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is strongly opposed tonurse participation in capital punishment. Participation in executions, either directly or indirectly, is viewed as contrary to the fundamental goals and ethical traditions of the nursing profession. Background Info

In Support of Patients’ Safe Access to Therapeutic Marijuana - 12/12/08
The American Nurses Association supports:

1.The education of registered nurses and other healthcarepractitioners regarding appropriate evidence-based therapeutic use of marijuana including those non-smoked forms of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) that have proven to be therapeutically efficacious
2.Protection from criminal or civil penalties for patients using medical marijuana as permitted under state laws
3.Exemption from criminal prosecution; civil liability; or professional sanctioning, suchas loss of licensure or credentialing, for healthcare practitioners who prescribe, dispense or administer medical marijuana in accordance with state law.
4.Reclassification of marijuana’s status from a Schedule I controlled substance into a less restrictive category.
5.Confirmation of the therapeutic efficacy of medical marijuana. Background Info
Stem Cell Research - 1/10/07
The AmericanNurses Association (ANA) supports the ethical use of stem cells for research and therapeutic purposes that impact health. Stem cell research is the foundation for cell-based therapies in which stem cells are induced to differentiate into the specific cell type required to repair damaged or destroyed cells or tissues. Stem cells have the ability to divide for indefinite periods in culture and theycan give rise to specialized cells. Both embryonic and adult cells are used in this research. Embryonic cells have the potential to become a wide variety of specialized cell types. These undifferentiated cells are derived from a 5-day preimplantation embryo. Adult cells are undifferentiated cells found in a differentiated tissue. They can renew and differentiate (with certain limitations) to giverise to all the specialized cell types of the tissue from which they originated (National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2006). Background Info

Privacy and Confidentiality - 12/8/06
The American Nurses Association supports the following principles with respect to patient privacy and confidentiality:

•A patient's right to privacy with respect to individually identifiable health information,...