Nurse leaders have a unique responsibility to not only uphold a nursing code of ethics but also a healthcare administrators’ code of ethics. As a nurse, ethics is an integral part of the formation of nursing as the nurse is concerned for the healthcare of the sick, injured and vulnerable (ANA, 2010). As a healthcare administrator, the nurse leader has a personal accountability and moral obligation to all customers involved, which includes the entire healthcare team, the physicians, the organization and the public (NAHQ, 2011). According to the NAHQ (2011), the administrator affects more than the bottom line as the administrator must build, develop and maintain trust through moral integrity. Today’s healthcare forces administrators to make
