A nurse manager has started a dialogue regarding the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements among staff nurses
Which staff nurse statements would the manager evaluate as indicating poor understanding of this document? Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.
Select all that apply.
1. "This document describes nursing's own understanding of its commitments to society."
2. "This document is so out of date, they never revise it."
3. "At least the ANA understood that professional ethics are different in different regions of the country."
4. "It is interesting that the ANA first addressed this code over 50 years ago."
5. "This document has established standards by which we should practice."
2,3
Rationale: The ANA's Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements is an expression of nursing's own understanding of its commitments to society.
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