250 unit 3 | Professional Issues
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Bloodborne and Airborne Diseases
Education and Barrier Use for Sexually Transmitted
Diseases and HIV Infection
The Health Care Service System and Linkage of Primary
Care, Substance Abuse, Mental Health, and HIV/AIDS-
Related Services
AIDS/HIV Disease and Socio-Culturally Diverse Populations
Equipment/Safety Procedures to Prevent Transmission of
Bloodborne Diseases
Guidelines for Disclosure to a Known Third Party About
Possible HIV Infection
HIV Infected Nurse, Ethical Obligations and Disclosure
Tuberculosis and HIV
HIV Disease and Correctional Inmates
Needle Exchange and HIV
Personnel Policies and HIV in the Workplace
Post-Exposure Programs in the Event of Occupational
Exposure to HIV/HBV
HIV Exposure from Rape/Sexual Assault
HIV Infection and Nursing Students
Tuberculosis and Public Health Nursing
HIV Infection and U.S. Teenagers
HIV Testing
Travel Restrictions for Persons with HIV/AIDS
HIV Disease and Women
Ethics and Human Rights
Stem Cell Research
Privacy and Confidentiality
Assuring Patient Safety: Registered Nurses’ Responsibility
in all Roles and Settings to Guard Against Working When
Fatigued
Assisted Suicide
Nurses’ Participation in Capital Punishment
The Non-Negotiable Nature of the ANA Code for Nurses
with Interpretive Statements
Cultural Diversity in Nursing Practice
Discrimination and Racism in Health Care
Nursing Care and Do-Not-Resuscitate Decisions
Ethics and Human Rights
Active Euthanasia
Foregoing Nutrition and Hydration
Mechanisms Through Which SNAs Consider Ethical/Human
Rights Issues
Nursing and the Patient Self-Determination Acts
Risk and Responsibility in Providing Nursing Care
Reduction of Patient Restraint and Seclusion in Healthcare
Settings
Assuring Patient Safety: The Employers’ Role in PromotingHealthy Nursing Work Hours for Registered Nurses in All
Roles and Settings
Pain Management and Control of Distressing Symptoms in
Dying Patients
Human Cloning by Means of Blastomere Splitting and
Nuclear Transplantation
Social Causes and Health Care
Elimination of Violence in Advertising Directed Toward
Children, Adolescents, and Families
Tobacco Use Prevention, Cessation, and Exposure to
Second-Hand Smoke
Adult Immunization
Adolescent Immunization
Violence Against Women
Adolescent Health
Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Prevention of Tobacco Use in Youth
Use of Placebos for Pain Management in Patients with
Cancer
Home Care for Mother, Infant, and Family Following Birth
Promotion and Disease Prevention
Long-Term Care
Childhood Immunizations
Informal Caregiving
Lead Poisoning and Screening
Nutrition Screening for the Elderly
Reproductive Health
Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Abuse of Prescription Drugs
Polypharmacy and the Older Adult
Opposition to Criminal Prosecution of Women for Use of
Drugs While Pregnant
Drug Testing for Health-Care Workers
Nursing Education
Guideline for Commercial Support for Continuing Nursing
Education
Nursing Practice
Professional Role Competence
Safety Issues Related to Tubing and Catheter Misconnec-
tions
Assuring Safe, High-Quality Health Care in Pre-K Through
12 Educational Settings
Credentialing and Privileging of Advanced Practice Regis-
tered Nurses
Providing Patients Safe Access to Therapeutic
Marijuana/Cannabis
Privatization and For-Profit Conversion
A National Nursing Database to Support Clinical Nursing
PracticePosition Statements