A set of core values and principles that guide conduct
NSNA Core Values: Professionalism, Care, Diversity, Advocacy, Quality Education and Leadership and Autonomy
- Professionalism - Characteristics that describe an individual striving to maintain the highest standards for one’s chosen path – honesty, integrity, responsibility and conducting oneself with responsibility, integrity, accountability, and excellence.
- Care - Feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others while showing or having compassion for others.
- Diversity - Differences that can be along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, nationality or other ideologies.
- Advocacy - An activity or process to work on behalf of self and/or others to raise awareness of a concern and to promote solutions to the issue.
- Quality Education - An act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for a profession.
- Leadership and Autonomy - A process of social influence which promotes innovative problem solving to move an autonomous, independent organization forward by providing a clear vision, maximizing the efforts of others, by respecting each individual and in collaboration with other appropriate resources.
- NSNA Code of Ethics
- Core Values
- Code of Professional Conduct
- Code of Academic and Clinical Conduct (with interpretive statements)
- Nursing Student Bill of Rights and Responsibilities
- Guide to Grievance Process