This document provides an introduction to ethics for nursing. It defines key terms like ethics, values, beliefs, and morals. It discusses nursing ethics and bioethics. The objectives are to define ethics terms, discuss ethics in nursing, review the criteria of a profession, and develop the characteristics of a professional nurse. It outlines the importance of ethics for nurses, patients, and society. It also discusses the criteria for a profession and lists the characteristics of knowledge-based and ethical nursing practice.