ANA Code Of Ethics Case Study

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The leader’s activities help create and facilitate an ethical work environment and culture. A nurse leader deals with the nurses, patients and their family, other healthcare disciplines and the community. The nurse leaders should have ethical standards and behavior. Thus, they can be a role model and can influence others in the ethical decision-making process. By demonstrating ethics through their actions, the nurse leaders get the support of the teammates. The ethical actions have more powerful effect in the leader's influence on others. These actions of the leader could also promote the employee commitment (Squazzo, 2012).

One of the provisions of the ANA code of ethics is about the expected behavior from the nurses. The nurses should treat

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