Nurses Must Know What’s in Revised Code of Ethics to Use It

October 20, 2015

(Nurse[dot]com) – “The kinds of quandaries nurses face are broad and far reaching,” said Cynda Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN, a professor of nursing and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University and the Anne and George L. Bunting professor of Clinical Ethics at Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics in Baltimore. “Because of their proximity to patients, they see in an intimate way the consequences of the therapies and often the suffering of their patients.”