ANA Position Statements
on Ethics and Human Rights

ANA Position Statements

• Foregoing Nutrition and Hydration

  
  ANA Position Statement - Revised 3/11/11

• Registered Nurses' Roles and Responsibilities in Providing Expert Care And Counseling at the End of Life

  
  ANA Position Statement Approved - 6/14/10

• The Nurses' Role in Ethics and Human Rights: Protecting and Promoting Individual Worth, Dignity, and Human Rights in Practice Settings

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 6/14/10

• Nurses' Role in Capital Punishment

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 1/28/10

• In Support of Patients’ Safe Access to Therapeutic Marijuana

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 12/12/08

• Stem Cell Research

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 1/10/07

• Privacy and Confidentiality

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 12/8/06

• Assuring Patient Safety: The Employers’ Role in Promoting Healthy Nursing Work Hours for Registered Nurses in All Roles and Settings

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 12/8/06

• Assuring Patient Safety: Registered Nurses’ Responsibility in All Roles and Settings to Guard Against Working When Fatigued

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 12/8/06

• Risk and Responsibility in Providing Nursing Care

  
  Position Statement - Approved 6/21/06

• Nursing Care and Do-Not-Resuscitate Decisions

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 12/03

• Reduction of Patient Restraint and Seclusion in Health Care Settings

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 10/17/01

• Assisted Suicide

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 12/08/94

• Active Euthanasia

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 12/08/94

• Retired Position Statement: Nursing and the Patient Self-Determination Acts - Nov 1991 This is available only to members.
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  ANA Position Statement - Archived February, 2012

• Cultural Diversity in Nursing Practice

  
  ANA Position Statement - Approved 10/22/91