Topics About 'Nursing Ethics'.

I'm just curious if it is against any rules to date a former patient of mine at the inpatient ward?????? please let me know he's such a sweet man and we totally connected a few months after he was in! Dear Wants to Date Former Patient, Nurses are the...

Looks like as nurses, we will be held to a professional standard, similar to other professionals. "Nurses are urged to recognize that dissemination of misinformation not only jeopardizes the health and well-being of the public but may place thei...

As nurses we are supposed to understand and follow science. Yet all over the country nurses are using their background to validate crackpot theories about Covid and the vaccine. Should there be consequences for leading an effort to hurt the public he...

I have a hypothetical situation that I need input from other nurses. Let's say that there is an individual that has dementia, schizophrenia and has a legal guardian. This individual resides in an adult care home. the prescriber prescribes an LAI with...

Nurses face ethical dilemmas on a daily basis. allnurses.com wanted to explore this topic more deeply. allnurses.com recently interviewed Alethea Sment, MSN, RN, ACCNS-AG, CCRN-CSC after her presentation on ethical dilemmas versus moral distress...

Like Phil Jackson once quoted, "The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team" (Jackson, 2014). How true is this quote, we all have our strengths and weaknesses that blended together with other members of...

Sleeping while on duty is the number 3 in my top ten of reasons nurses get fired. In 1910, we slept for an average of 9 hours; by 2002, the average dropped to 6.9 hours per night. Early studies indicate that those Individuals who work nights and...

Congratulations nurses, you did it again! Nurses Rock! 13 years in a row nurses are at the top of the charts! Nurses continue to outrank other professions in Gallup's annual Honesty and Ethics survey. This year, 85% of responses ranked nurses Ve...

I was just a child when I became an RN. Not yet 20 and in charge of a 42 pt unit at night. Many a night I held the hand of a dying person, cleaned the still warm body of a just passed pt, medicated and medicated the dying pt in pain. Often calling a ...

I'll never forget a little girl I helped take care of for over four years in the Pediatric ICU. J was one of a kind... literally. She had an autoimmune disease no other child in the world has ever been diagnosed with. At two weeks old, she was admitt...

Pandemic Ethics Podcast episodes cover discussions of the defining ethical challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, featuring world-renowned experts in ethics, public health, law, economics, public policy, and beyond. Hosted by Joshua Preiss, Director of...

The advancements in the treatment of cancer have greatly increased the odds of survival; even for the worst types of cancer. Miraculous and inspirational recoveries, such as those by chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who was recently hospitalized w...

Four years ago, before I got admitted to a nursing school, I went to the hospital at Intensive Care Unit with my uncle to visit his friend who was involved in a road accident and sustained fractures in both upper and lower extremities as well as righ...

I have been a nurse for only seven years; however, certain events and situations will remain embedded in my memory for the rest of my life. One of these events took place during my first year of nursing practice when I was employed at a long term car...