February 20, 2025
(New York Times) – Most medical professionals learned long ago not to expect reality in dramatizations of their work. From the early days of “General Hospital,” to “Grey’s Anatomy” and its various spinoffs, to more recent hits like “The Good … Read More
February 12, 2025
Nursing Ethics (vol. 32, no. 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
February 5, 2025
(BBC) – Convicted serial killer Lucy Letby is back in the news after a panel of medical experts working with her defence team said they believe the 35-year-old did not commit the murders. The case against the former nurse has … Read More
February 3, 2025
(Knowable Magazine) – A movement to provide hospital-level care for sick patients in their own beds, in the comfort of familiar surroundings, is growing in the United States — a trend already embraced in some other countries A while back, … Read More
January 30, 2025
(New York Times) – She transformed nursing by making it an area of clinical practice and research and recasting nurses as colleagues of doctors, not assistants. Loretta Ford, who co-founded the first academic program for nurse practitioners in 1965, then … Read More
January 21, 2025
(KFF Health News) – A pair of dogs, tails wagging, had come by a nearby nursing station, causing about a dozen medical professionals to melt into a collective puddle of affection. A yellow Lab named Peppi showered Fraser in nuzzles … Read More
January 21, 2025
(Aeon) – Nurses experience deep suffering when they can’t act according to their moral compass. Our research shows a way forward While physicians and surgeons are not exempt from moral suffering, nurses are especially vulnerable to it. Due to the … Read More
January 20, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – The strain of caregiving likely plays a role in murder-suicides among older adults, say researchers Donna Cohen, a retired psychiatry professor behind the research, found that a husband was acting as his wife’s caregiver in about … Read More
January 10, 2025
(KFF Health News) – The rapidly spreading wildfires that have transformed much of Los Angeles County into a raging hellscape are not only upending the lives of tens of thousands of residents and business owners, but also stressing the region’s … Read More
January 6, 2025
(NBC News) – A former hospital worker was arrested in connection with a late 2024 incident that left three babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Virginia’s Henrico Doctors’ Hospital with “unexplainable fractures,” according to officials. Henrico Police identified … Read More
December 24, 2024
(NPR) – Young caregivers have always been there, doing all the same things that adults do — helping people get dressed, charting symptoms and medicines, dealing with doctors and bills. About one-quarter of all family caregivers are between 18 and … Read More
December 13, 2024
(New York Times) – A trio of relatives in New Jersey defrauded the state’s Medicaid program out of millions of dollars while neglecting patient care, the state comptroller found. Three men running a group of nursing homes in New Jersey … Read More
December 6, 2024
Nursing Ethics (vol. 31, no. 8, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 4, 2024
(NPR) – The Taliban’s supreme leader has reportedly ordered a ban on women attending nursing and midwivery institutes, closing a rare avenue they had to pursue an education beyond the sixth grade. Human Rights Watch says the ban was ordered … Read More
December 2, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The number of male registered nurses in the U.S. has nearly tripled since the early 2000s Many of the manufacturing jobs that are being moved overseas, replaced by automation or phased out of the American economy … Read More
November 22, 2024
(Plough) – A husband caring for a loved one with dementia finds dark valleys, but also limitless spiritual resources. Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, in How We Die, describes the experience of dementia caregivers as “spiritually exhausting.” At times, that was my … Read More
November 19, 2024
(NBC News) – Allegations that go unreported and a lack of accountability for health care workers leave patients in the dark and increase the risk of abuse, research shows. Violent crime in hospitals is up, according to a 2023 report from The Joint … Read More
October 31, 2024
(NPR) – Almost 60% of the roughly 11.5 million people caring for someone with dementia report high or very high emotional stress. Between 40% and 70% of family caregivers have symptoms of depression. Caregivers of people with incurable cancer actually … Read More
October 30, 2024
(Axios) – Hospitals and clinics remain among the most violent workplaces in America, continuing to strain health workers in the aftermath of the pandemic experience. Why it matters: The situation is bad enough that the American Hospital Association and the … Read More
October 23, 2024
Nursing Ethics (vol. 31, no. 7, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 25, 2024
(NPR) – COVID killed more than 3,600 U.S. health care workers in the first year of the pandemic. It left many more with physical and mental illnesses — and a gutting sense of abandonment. What workers experienced has been detailed … Read More
September 24, 2024
(New York Times) – Overwhelmed by queries, physicians are turning to artificial intelligence to correspond with patients. Many have no clue that the replies are software-generated. Many patients receiving those replies have no idea that they were written with the … Read More
September 18, 2024
Nursing Ethics (vol. 31, no. 5, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 28, 2024
Nursing Ethics (vol. 31, no. 4, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 19, 2024
(STAT News) – Risk of suicide increased in year after diagnosis, suggesting caregivers need more support The distress from receiving a cancer diagnosis is something that clinicians widely anticipate in patients, but suffering often doesn’t just afflict the patient. It … Read More
