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The American Nurses Association's Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (2015) is the nursing profession's nonnegotiable ethical practice standard. Provision 2 of the Code states that “the nurse’s primary commitment is to the patient.” Provision 5 of the Code states that the nurse owes the same duty to self as to others. These equal obligations can conflict during pandemics when nurses must continually care for critically ill infectious patients, often under extreme circumstances including insufficient or inadequate resources and uncontained contagion. D

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