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Bloodborne and Airborne Diseases
Education and Barrier Use for Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV Infection
The Health Care Service System and Linkage of Primary Care, SubstanceAbuse, Mental Health, and HIV/AIDS Related Services
AIDS/HIV Disease and Socio-Culturally Diverse Populations
Availability of Equipment and Safety Procedures to Prevent Transmission of Bloodborne Diseases
Guidelines for Disclosure to a Known Third Party About Possible HIV Infection
HIV Infected Nurse, Ethical Obligations and Disclosure
Tuberculosis and HIV
HIV Disease and Correctional Inmates
Needle Exchange and HIV
Support for Confidential Notification Services and a Limited Privilege to Disclose
Personnel Policies and HIV in the Workplace
Post-Exposure Programs in the Event of Occupational Exposure to HIV/HBV
HIV Exposure from Rape/Sexual Assault
HIV Infection and Nursing Students
Tuberculosis and Public Health Nursing
HIV Infection and U.S. Teenagers
HIV Testing
Travel Restrictions for Persons with HIV/AIDS
HIV Disease and Women

Ethics and Human Rights
Human Cloning by Means of Blastomere Splitting and Nuclear Transplantation
Privacy and Confidentiality
Assisted Suicide
Nurses' Participation in Capital Punishment
The Non-Negotiable Nature of the Code for Nurses
NOTE: This is NOT the Code for Nurses.
To order the Code for Nurses, go the Publications Catalog .
Promotion of Comfort and Relief of Pain in Dying Patients
Cultural Diversity in Nursing Practice
Discrimination and Racism in Health Care
Nursing Care and Do-Not-Resuscitate Decisions
Ethics and Human Rights
Active Euthanasia
Foregoing Nutrition and Hydration
Mechanisms Through Which SNAs Consider Ethical/Human Rights Issues
Nursing and the Patient Self-Determination Acts
Risk Versus Responsibility in Providing Nursing Care

Social Causes and Health Care
Adolescent Health
Adult Immunization
Cessation of Tobacco Use
Childhood Immunizations
Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Home Care for Mother, Infant and Family Following Birth
Informal Caregiving
Lead Poisoning and Screening
Long Term Care
Nutrition Screening for the Elderly
Physical Violence against Women
Prevention of Tobacco Use in Youth

Promotion and Disease Prevention
Reproductive Health
Use of Placebos for Pain Management in Patients with Cancer
Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Abuse of Prescription Drugs
Polypharmacy and the Older Adult
Opposition to Criminal Prosecution of Women for Use of Drugs While Pregnant
Support for Treatment Services for Alcohol and Drug Dependent Women of Childbearing Age
Drug Testing for Health Care Workers
Nursing Education
Guideline for Commercial Support for Continuing Nursing

Education
Nursing Practice
A National Nursing Database to Support Clinical Nursing Practice
Nurse-Midwifery
Privatization and For-profit Conversion
Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing and Managed Care
Nursing Research
Education for Participation in Nursing Research
Consumer Advocacy
Referrals to the Most Appropriate Provider

Workplace Advocacy
Latex Allergy
The Right to Accept or Reject an Assignment
Restructuring, Work Redesign, and the Job and Career Security of Registered Nurses
Sexual Harassment
Polygraph Testing of Health Care Workers

Unlicensed Assistive Personnel
NOTE: ANA work on the UAP issue has been ongoing.
Registered Nurse Utilization of Unlicensed Assistive Personnel
Registered Nurse Education Relating to the Utilization of Unlicensed Assistive Personnel

Joint Statements
AORN Official Statement on RN First Assistants
Role of the Registered Nurse (RN) in the Management of Analgesia by Catheter Techniques
Paper On Computer-based Patient Record Standards
Paper on Authentication in a Computer-Based Patient Record
On Access to Patient Data
Role of the Registered Nurse (RN) in the Management of Patients Receiving IV Conscious Sedation
Maintaining Professional and Legal Standards During a Shortage of Nursing Personnel
Services to Families Following a SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)
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