ANSWERS
Provision 5 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The nurse owes the same duties to self as to others, including the
responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve wholeness of character and integrity, maintain
competence, and continue personal and professional growth.
5.1 Duties to Self and Others - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nurses must take care of themselves before
taking care of others.
Self-regarding duties include health, safety, integrity, competence and professional growth.
5.2 Promotion of personal health, safety, and well-being - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nurses have a duty to
model health promotion to patients and the public.
Fatigue and compassion fatigue may be occupational hazards for nurses in intense clinical practice.
Balance in personal and professional life is essential for well-being.
Good diet, exercise, healthy sleep patterns and healthy relationships are all factors in maintaining this
balance.
5.3 Preservation of wholeness of character - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nurses are moral agents in any
setting, as they embrace the values of the profession and display them in their communication and
actions.
Nurses should assess risks to integrity ahead of employment decisions.
Nurses' personal values merge with professional values, creating an identity that is reflected in practice
and permeates private life.
Thieves, liars and cheats do not make good nurses!
Felonious record disqualifies a person from becoming a nurse