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Autonomy: The belief that each and every individual is priceless. Every individual is able to make their own choices as long as they do not infringe on another person’s choices. The ability to treat people as valuable.

Veracity: Always give the patient precise and accurate information. Never lie to the patient in order to protect them. A trust-filled relationship is established when you tell the patient the truth.

Provision 5 of the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses states: “The nurse owes the same duties to self as to others, including the responsibility to preserve integrity and safety, to maintain competence, and to continue personal and professional growth.”

Nurses must maintain a sense of self-respect. A nurse must always be evaluating her work and must become a life long learner. Nurses are entitled to have their own personal opinions and beliefs. Nurses must always maintain a sense of integrity. They must be able to compromise only if their integrity is not harmed

1. There is one Supreme Being who is in all things and around all things. This being is Creator and is the pure and formless ground from which all things come from.

2. They believe that the four Vedas, the world’s most ancient scripture, is divine. They also believe that the Agamas (texts on how to live/perform rituals) are equally inspired.

3. Hindus believe that the universe undergoes endless cycles of creation, preservation, and dissolution.

4. Hindus believe in karma, the law of cause and effect by which individuals create their own destiny, by their thoughts, words, and deeds.

5. Hindus believe that the soul reincarnates, evolving through many births until all karmas have been resolved, and moshka, liberation from the cycle of rebirth, is attained. Not a single soul will be deprived of this destiny.

6. Hindus believe that divine beings exist in unseen worlds and that temple worship, rituals, sacraments, and personal devotionals create a communion with these devas and Gods.

7. Hindus believe that an enlightened master, or satguru, is essential to know the Supreme Being, as are personal discipline, good conduct, purification, pilgrimage, self-inquiry, meditation, and surrender in God.

8. Hindus believe that all life is sacred, to be loved and revered, and therefore practice ahimsa, noninjury, in thought, word and deed.

9. Hindus believe that no religion teaches the only way to salvation above all others, but that all genuine paths are facets of God’s Light, deserving tolerance and understanding.

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