Answer for NURS 8210 Week 9 Discussion: Ethics, Cyber Ethics, and Security Explain how each of the topics might impact clinical practice. Describe why it is important to understand how ethics applies to clinical practice. Be specific and provide examples.

Ethics The Code of Ethics for Nurses is a professional guide to nursing practice (ANA, 2015a). It clarifies the expected values, obligations, duties, and ideals of all nurses. It is an expression of nurses’ commitment to society’s health and well-being at the individual, family, community, and population levels. The basic ethical principles in nursing include justice, beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and privacy. Two common examples of ethics in nursing practice are the use of informed consent and shared decision-making. Cyber Ethics Cyber ethical guidance in nursing relies on the same ethical principles found in nursing’s Code of Ethics. Cyber ethics impacts clinical practice based on nursing informaticists’ requirement to employ informatics principles, standards, and methodologies that establish and maintain patient confidentiality within legal and regulatory parameters (ANA, 2015b, p. 196). It correlates to Provision 3.1 of the Nursing Code of Ethics which requires nurses to protect the rights of privacy and confidentiality of clients (ANA, 2015a). The practicing DNP role is also required to organize care to address emerging practice problems and ethical dilemmas that will continue to be seen as technology evolves (Sipes, p38). The balance of public health and patient privacy /autonomy came into question during the COVID-19 pandemic and will continue to be an ongoing conversation for nursing practice as we address the interoperability of our nation’s healthcare infrastructure (O’Reilly-Shah et al., 2020). Security Based on Standard 12 of the Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice (2008) nursing is required to,” evaluate factors related to privacy, security, and confidentiality in the use and handling of data, information, and knowledge (p. 196).” It also correlates to Provision 3.1 of the Nursing Code of Ethics as well as the DNP role requirements. In practice, Sulmasy et al. (2017), further clarifies the instant retrieval, exchange, and transmission of healthcare information increases the risk of an unauthorized use, access, and disclosure of patients’ private and confidential information. This is why, as healthcare professionals, we utilize user identification and password-protected systems and also require dual authentication when remotely accessing electronic health records in practice.