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The NMC is set to approve this important new guidance on 3 December 2008 - which covers a wide range of topics such as communication, personal hygiene and maintaining privacy and dignity. Essential principles The guidance, to be published in 2009, will contain essential principles for the UK's 674,000 nurses, who represent 35 per cent of the NHS clinical workforce, to interpret their professional Code of conduct, performance and ethics as it applies to older people.

CNA/NNOC calls poll latest charge to continue push to advocate for patients, guaranteed healthcare For the seventh straight year, nurses are the winner in the Gallup Poll's annual "honesty and professional ethics" survey. A stunning 84 percent of Americans rated nurses honesty and ethics standards as either "high" or "very high," easily topping the survey.