The nursing profession has long cared for and sought to heal the sick. The nurse today functions within healthcare teams inside hospital systems or in outpatient settings. Throughout the nursing profession, ethics has been important. The Nightingale Pledge was the ethical standard for the ideal nurse adapted from the Hippocratic Oath and named after Florence Nightingale. It held the nurse responsible to God, forbid harming the patient, and commissioned nurses to promote the health of patients and assist physicians in this endeavor. The profession advanced in 1965 to create nurse practitioners to address the needs of access to healthcare. Nurse . . .
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