Nurses: Honest and Ethical

For the second year in a row, a Gallup survey on honesty and ethics in professions found that the American public rates nurses as having the highest standards of honesty and ethics, with 79 percent saying nurses have "very high" or "high" ethical standards. Pharmacists ranked second with 67 percent. In fact, the top four on the scale were all medical professions; ranking third and fourth were veterinarians (66 percent) and medical doctors (63 percent).