4.4 Assignment, Delegation of Nursing Activities or Tasks Provision 5. The nurse owes the same duties to self, as to others, including the responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve wholeness of character and integrity, maintain competence, and to continue personal and professional growth. 5.1 Duties to Self and Others 5.2 Promotion of Personal Health, Safety, and Well-Being 5.3 Preservation of Wholeness of Character 5.4 Preservation of Integrity 5.5 Maintenance of Competence and Continuation of Professional Growth 5.6 Continuation of Personal Growth Provision 6. The nurse, through individual and collective effort, establishes, maintains, and improves the ethical environment of the work setting and conditions of employment that are conducive to safe, quality health care. 6.1 The Environment and Moral Virtues 6.2 The Environment and Ethical Obligations 6.3 Responsibility for the Health Care Environment Provision 7. The nurse, in all roles and settings, advances the profession through research and scholarly inquiry, professional standards development, and the generation of both nursing and health policy. 7.1 Contributions through Research and Scholarly Inquiry 7.2 Contributions through Developing, Maintaining, and Implementing Professional Practice Standards 7.3 Contribution through Nursing and Health Policy Development Provision 8. The nurse collaborates with other health professionals and the public to promote health diplomacy and reduce health disparities. 8.1 Health is a Universal Right 8.2 Collaboration for Health, Human Rights, and Health Disparity 8.3 Obligations to Advance Health and Human Rights and Reduce Disparities 8.4 Collaboration for Human Rights in Complex, Extreme, or Extraordinary Practice Settings Provision 9. The profession of nursing, collectively through its professional organizations, must articulate nursing value, maintain the integrity of the profession, and integrate principles of social justice into nursing and health policy. 9.1 Articulation and Assertion of Values 9.2 Integrity of the Nursing Profession 9.3 Integrating Social Justice 9.4 Social Justice in Nursing and Health Policy American Nurses Association Nursing World. (2015). Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements. Retrieved from http://www.nursingworld.org/codeofethics
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