Nursing leadership utilizes ethical principles in nursing practice. Ethical principles are guidelines that ensure and orient nurses to make decisions on the value of the professional nursing system (Momennasab, Koshkaki, Torabizadeh, & Tabei, 2016). Applying ethical principles within the nursing profession promotes professional leadership, value, and demonstrates respect for healthcare providers (Salminen, Stolt, Metsämäki, Rinne, Kasen, & Leino-Kilpi, 2016). It allows nursing leaders to act on ethical principles to identify and analyze ethical issues when providing care (Salminen et al., 2016). The two ethical principles that will be highlighted in this paper are autonomy and beneficence to current leadership practices within healthcare. This paper will discuss the ethical principles of autonomy and beneficence, analyze leadership issues to autonomy and beneficence, and integrate informatics of nursing to autonomy and beneficence.…