Defending Against Moral Distress
A collaborative initiative offers recommendations to build moral resilience. All nurses have at some point been faced with situations that challenge their values. Whether dealing with families or...
View ArticleA Nurse Takes a Stand—and Gets Arrested
image via Wikimedia Commons / Jacklee Douglas P. Olsen, PhD, RN, associate professor, College of Nursing, Michigan State University, writes about ethical issues for AJN. On July 26, Alex Wubbels,...
View ArticleBrain Injury. Undocumented Patient. Who Decides About Treatment?
When an unauthorized immigrant suffers a brain injury, who decides when treatment is withdrawn? An ethical dilemma touches on issues of clinician autonomy and justice versus patient and family...
View ArticleAid-in-Dying: A Daughter’s Challenging New Nursing Role
A father’s request. The March Reflections essay in AJN is by a nurse whose terminally ill 92-year-old father asked her to help him legally end his own life under the requirements of Oregon’s Death with...
View ArticleNurses, Dying, and Who Gets to Decide
by Ramon Peco/via Flickr On Wednesday, a California court declared the state’s right-to-die law unconstitutional. The End of Life Act (AB-15) was passed in 2016 in a special session called by Governor...
View Article‘We Request Your Quiescent Contribution’: Predatory Publishers Are Absurd,...
Multiple daily solicitations. The screenshot below shows an excerpt from an email our editor-in-chief recently received. Editors at AJN receive multiple emails daily from mysterious publishers...
View ArticleDefining Death
My first encounter with brain death was back in the early 1970s. I was a new RN in a shock-trauma unit. We admitted a 17-year-old young woman who had attempted suicide by jumping out of a fifth-floor...
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