This fear may be due, in part, to the potential harm that nurses perceive from patients' behavior, or perhaps because nurses believe that They could find themselves in dangerous situations at some point. nursing practice. Additionally, bias and discrimination in the healthcare system based on gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion, professional characteristics and abilities can lead to decreased satisfaction professionalism of nurses and increase the risk of developing a psychological illness. Nurses are a group of healthcare professionals who have always needed to make decisions on any matter with other people. In Value Statements 6 and 7, the Code of Ethics for Nurses in Australia states that nurses respect the moral and legal right to prioritize individual safety, then develop care plans and provide appropriate nursing care to patients ( NMBA, 2008). Therefore, nurses should have the moral and legal right to make clear judgments about the safety of working with diverse patients, whether in their direct or indirect nursing practice. As nurses can legally refuse to care for their family members, refuse to care for a patient who has threatened physical or legal harm, or refuse to take on a heavy workload during the shift. work to ensure patient safety.