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Certification Prep

Strategies for Certification Exam Success You need to know more than the content to pass your nursing certification exam. You also need a plan to manage your time and your stress. Learn how to break down the exam to help maximize your score with this course.

Ethics

ANA’s Decoding the Code series provides you with a chance to go deeper into each Provision in the Code of Ethics for Nurses released in January 2025. Dive into essential provisions, key concepts, and reflections to gain practical insights that can help you confidently navigate ethical challenges in your practice.

Decoding the Code: Nurse-to-Patient Relationship

• Decoding the Code: Provision 1 The nurse practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and unique attributes of every person.
• Decoding the Code: Provision 2 The nurse practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and unique attributes of every person.
• Decoding the Code: Provision 3 The nurse establishes a trusting relationship and advocates for the rights, health, and safety of recipient(s) of nursing care; emphasizing key concepts, nursing values, and real-world examples of how to navigate ethical challenges within your practice. 

Decoding the Code: Nurse-to-Colleague Relationship

• Decoding the Code: Provision 4 Nurses have authority over nursing practice and are responsible and accountable for their practice consistent with their obligations to promote health, prevent illness, and provide optimal care.
• Decoding the Code: Provision 5 The nurse has moral duties to self as a person of inherent dignity and worth including an expectation of a safe place to work that fosters flourishing, authenticity of self at work, and self-respect through integrity and professional competence.
• Decoding the Code: Provision 6 Nurses, through individual and collective effort, establish, maintain, and improve the ethical environment of the work setting that affects nursing care and the well-being of nurses.

Coming Fall 2025! Decoding the Code: Nurse-to-Society Relationship

• Decoding the Code: Provision 7 Nurses advance the profession through multiple approaches to knowledge development, professional standards, and the generation of policies for nursing, health, and social concerns.
• Decoding the Code: Provision 8 Nurses build collaborative relationships and networks with nurses, other healthcare and non-healthcare disciplines, and the public to achieve greater ends.
• Decoding the Code: Provision 9 Nurses and their professional organizations work to enact and resource practices, policies, and legislation to promote social justice, eliminate health inequities, and facilitate human flourishing.

Coming Winter 2025-26: New Provision!

• Decoding the Code: Provision 10 Nursing, through organizations and associations, participates in the global nursing and health community to promote human and environmental health, well-being, and flourishing.

Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice

These courses provide you with an overview of the Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 4^th ed. as well as how to implement them in your day-to-day work.

• Putting the Nursing Scope and Standards into Practice This course will help you understand and apply the standards and their accompanying competencies to your practice.
• Bringing the Nursing Scope and Standards to Life - Part 1 This course explores the significance of integrating the Scope and Standards into everyday nursing. You will identify practical and innovative strategies organizations can use to adopt the standard’s framework and competencies into their nurses’ daily practice.
• Bringing the Nursing Scope and Standards to Life – Part 2  This course shifts from Part 1's discussion of the applicability of the Standard's competencies, and moves to a state of application, using the Nursing Scope and Standards as a grounding framework. You will discover tangible strategies to develop a meaningful and comprehensive nursing evaluation tool—for nursing students and registered nurses at all levels and in all specialties.

About the American Nurses Association

As the oldest organization representing more than 5 million registered nurses, the American Nurses Association stands at the forefront of advancing nursing excellence. The association harnesses The Power of Nurses™ to champion the profession and drive transformation in healthcare. Through legislative and political advocacy, comprehensive educational services, and the profession’s leading Code of Ethics and Scope and Standards, the association empowers nurses across every specialty and practice setting. The association is committed to ensuring healthy work environments, shaping pioneering policies, and cultivating partnerships that enhance both the nursing profession and the broader healthcare experience.