What business does the association have in establishing these professional duties? It has an undoubted interest in its members’ professional knowledge and skills, their willingness to work collaboratively in the health-care system and their ability to relate to patients including those from many and diverse backgrounds. But, their interest should not extend to telling them what to think, believe and advocate.
Why is this happening? Group politics prevail today and these groups have activists who seek to dominate agendas and silence those who think otherwise. Dissenters are sidelined or choose to remain quiet, hoping the activists will go away. The activists in the Canadian Nurses Association haven’t gone away.
The consequence is that the association can hold its members to account for departures from current orthodoxies or the opinions of the leadership; members may not know what their transgressions are until after the fact when they are summoned for discipline.
Association's new code of ethics compels nurses to include a broad set of progressive political beliefs in their professional duties
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(or they couldn't; tense machines giving them 'period/pregnancy pain' simulations has been eye opening and hilarious.)
