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Ethics in everyday care

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By: Shika Kalevor, MBE, BSN, RN, HEC-C

The pandemic, from its earliest days in March 2020, exposed not only a health and healthcare crisis but also deep inequities in our society. Unequal care and outcomes—visibly evident at the time and subsequently substantiated by research—resulted from racism and other forms of bigotry, prejudicial bias, and various types of discrimination such as ableism, ageism, classism, heterosexism, and sexism. Even with a better understanding today of the corrosive effects of these issues, they still exist. In this context, what can an individual nurse do to uphold the values outlined in the revised Code of Ethics for Nurses (Code) as it relates to these harms?

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