Nurses, according to the ICN Code of Ethics as reviewed in 2005, have four fundamental responsibilities:  to promote health, to prevent illness, to restore health and to alleviate suffering.  The need for nursing is universal.  Inherent in nursing is respect for human rights, including cultural rights, the right to life and choice, to dignity and to be treated with respect.

Nursing care is respectful of and unrestricted by considerations of age, colour, creed, culture, disability or illness, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, politics, race or social status.

Nurses render health services to the individual, the family and the community and coordinate their services with those of related groups.

Before 1981, nursing was adjudged a vocation in Nigeria, but  by virtue of the Industrial Arbitration Panel (IAP) award of 1981, nursing got the recognition of a full-fledged profession.

Arising from that pronouncement, the association has been working with the N&MCN to take nursing to the highest pedestral of professionalism, and one of the ways is through nursing education reforms.

 Code of ethics

Nursing in Nigeria operates within the ambit  of the code of professional conduct for Nurses and Midwives as put together by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria.  The code of conduct operates seven (7) principal elements that outline the standard of ethnical conduct viz.

• The professional Nurse

• The professional Nurse and the Health Care consumer

• The professional Nurse and the Nursing profession

• The professional Nurse and Nursing practice

• The professional Nurse and Professional colleagues

• The professional Nurse and the Public

• The professional Nurse and the global health organization.

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