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Dela Cruz, Aurea Gelina R. BSN - Ii B 1. Nuremberg Code 2

The document summarizes three codes of medical ethics: 1. The Nuremberg Code establishes standards for human experimentation. 2. The Hippocratic Oath outlines a physician's duties to patients, including treating the sick, preventing disease, keeping patient information private, and remembering the human behind the illness. 3. The Nightingale Pledge commits nurses to practicing with purity, confidentiality, and devotion to patient welfare and working with the healthcare team.

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Dela Cruz, Aurea Gelina R. BSN - Ii B 1. Nuremberg Code 2

The document summarizes three codes of medical ethics: 1. The Nuremberg Code establishes standards for human experimentation. 2. The Hippocratic Oath outlines a physician's duties to patients, including treating the sick, preventing disease, keeping patient information private, and remembering the human behind the illness. 3. The Nightingale Pledge commits nurses to practicing with purity, confidentiality, and devotion to patient welfare and working with the healthcare team.

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Dela Cruz, Aurea Gelina R.

BSN – II B

1. Nuremberg Code
2.
2. The Hippocratic Oath: Modern Version

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:


“
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such
knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of
overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and
understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another
are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know.
Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given to me to save a life, all
thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with
great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness
may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I
am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings,
those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection
thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the
joy of healing those who seek my help.

3. Nightingale Pledge

I solemnly pledge myself before  God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in
purity and to practice my profession faithfully.
I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly
administer any harmful drug.
I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession, and will hold in
confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my
knowledge in the practice of my calling.
With loyalty will I endeavor to aid the physician, in his work, and devote myself to the welfare of
those committed to my care.

 Sometimes changed to: "With loyalty will I endeavor to work closely with the health team, and
devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care"
References:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
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