When teaching an educator has to follow the syllabus while incorporating so many other factors like case scenarios, consequences to no treatment or not following protocol. The need for a code of ethics was first noted back in 1896, but other issues took priority. “Thus, for many years, nurses had no formalized code of ethics and used Gretter’s Nightingale Pledge, akin to medicine’s Hippocratic Oath, to guide their practice (ANA, n.d). ((Epstein & Turner, 2015). When precepting new nurses, I say to them that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, Newton’s third law of physics. ("Newton's third law," n.d.). This phrase is to get the nurse to think that everything she/he does has consequences. Hopefully the consequences …show more content…
• Provision 3: The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of the patient.
• Provision 4: The nurse has authority, accountability, and responsibility for nursing practice; makes decisions; and takes action consistent with the obligation to promote health and to provide optimal care.
“These revised provisions and interpretive statements were developed with an eye toward the future and a foot well-grounded in knowledge gained from the past.” (Winland-Brown, Lachman, & Swanson, 2015). These four provisions are indicative for this assignment and for every day use as a nurse educator and as a nurse. On the issue of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), privacy is to be advocated by all on the unit and hospital. I saw a patient’s family member come out of the room he was visiting to take a picture of an individual walking down the hallway. I approached the gentleman and informed him that pictures are not to be taken, he said that he would report me for stopping him. I gave him my managers information and he proceeded the next day to report me. As it turned out he had already taken a picture of the patient in the next room and when out lawyers asked him to show the pictures that he had taken, he refused and when the lawyer informed him that they would call the police because he violated