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Professional ethics related to nursing is acomponent part of health care ethics. A health care professional’s ethical responsibility prevails over their legal responsibility. The autonomy of a nursing professional is different from that of medical professional. Nurses ́ international codes of conduct express the essential values and ob- jectives of the nursing profession. A correlation between health care and medical diagnoses and activities is necessary in both clinical practice and training. A nurse’s ethical awareness is combined with the knowledge of ethical theory and the moral sensitivity relates to the acquaintance of personal traits in human relations. Conceptual nursing models can be used as a practical philosophical abstraction for up-to-date nursing profession.