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At the Intersection of Hospice and Obstetrics, a True Test of...
By Jacob Molyneux, senior editor Renee Noble with her newborn daughter, Violet. Photo by Heidi Ricks. We’d like to draw attention to a particularly frank and thought-provoking article in the October...
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AJN in November: Palliative Care, Mild TBI, the Ethics of Force-Feeding...
AJN’s November issue is now available on our Web site. Here’s a selection of what not to miss. Palliative care versus hospice. For many seriously ill, hospitalized older adults, early implementation of...
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‘She’s Alive Because Of You’: A Nurse’s Advocacy Pays Off
Katie L. George, DNP, RN, AG-ACNP, CCRN While attending this year’s American Association of Critical-Care Nurses National Teaching Institute meeting, AJN editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy heard a story...
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Dialysis Patients’ Very Different Life or Death Choices
Illustration by Barbara Hranilovich. All rights reserved. This month’s Reflections essay is called “Sitting with Death.” The subtitle provides a little context: A social worker on a dialysis unit bears...
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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...
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A 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,...
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Brain 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When an unauthorized immigrant suffers a brain injury, who decides when treatment is withdrawn?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...
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Aid-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...
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Nurses, 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...
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‘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...
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Defining 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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