The ANA Nursing Code of Ethics Provision Three states, "the nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety, and rights of the patient." While reviewing the article, Lessons from Africa: Developing a global human rights framework for tuberculosis control and prevention, the rights of the patient was not being taken into consideration. However, the rights of the local and global community are being considered, because by placing the infected patient with TB in isolation/ incarceration it is protecting the population that could become potential patients. This ethical dilemma is that does the TB patient's rights over rule the communities rights for protection from a communicable disease, or should the community suffer
