February 27, 2015
(Nursing Times) – The report – called What’s important to me: A review of Choice in End of Life Care – offers a blueprint for how greater choice in end of life can be achieved. It was published today by … Read More
February 20, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – End-of-life care for nursing home residents has long been associated with poor symptom control and low family satisfaction. With more than one in four older Americans dying in a nursing home—including 70 percent of Americans with advanced … Read More
February 19, 2015
Nursing Ethics (Volume 22, No. 1, February 2015) is now available online by subscription only. Articles include: “‘Moral distress’ – time to abandon a flawed nursing construct?” by Megan-Jane Johnstone and Alison Hutchinson “Gender and the experience of moral distress in … Read More
February 18, 2015
(New York Times) – But now, reducing patient suffering — the kind caused not by disease but by medical care itself — has become a medical goal. The effort is driven partly by competition and partly by a realization that … Read More
February 17, 2015
(New York Times) – If you or a loved one is having a heart attack, your most pressing concerns probably include how quickly you can get to the hospital and the quality of care you’ll receive. You’re probably not thinking … Read More
February 16, 2015
(Medscape) – Physicians in Europe are much more likely to favor random drug testing for doctors, are less likely to report an impaired colleague, and are more comfortable with the attitude of “the doctor knows what’s best for the patient,” … Read More
February 13, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – After four decades of work – first on patients’ rights, then on family and caregiving relationships, and most recently on systemic reform—we now know that it will take additional efforts in all three areas to improve care … Read More
February 5, 2015
(The Globe and Mail) – One of the most difficult and poorly understood issues in end-of-life care is the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Surveys of the general public’s knowledge about the success rate of CPR reveal a wide gap … Read More
January 30, 2015
(Vox) – Medical errors kill more people than car crashes or new disease outbreaks. They kill more people annually than breast cancer, AIDS, plane crashes, or drug overdoses. Depending which estimate you use, medical errors are either the 3rd or … Read More
January 28, 2015
(Washington Post) – Introduced to the United States in the 1970s, hospice care is becoming an increasingly common treatment. Last year, 1.65 million people received hospice care, up from just more than 1 million in 2004, according to the National Hospice … Read More
January 16, 2015
(New York Times) – How could hundreds of bags of intravenous saline solution meant for training health care workers have been given to real patients? That is the question health authorities were scrambling to answer this week after Wallcur, a … Read More
January 6, 2015
(The Atlantic) – California’s frail elderly and disabled residents increasingly are receiving care in their own homes, an arrangement that saves the government money and offers many people a greater sense of comfort and autonomy than life in an institution. … Read More
January 5, 2015
(Medscape) – A new set of five points of guidance may help healthcare institutions and clinicians develop policies that incorporate clinician risk into decisions on how to care for patients with Ebola virus disease, according to an article published online … Read More
December 31, 2014
(Scientific American) – This assault is far from an isolated incident. Health-care workers are hit, kicked, scratched, bitten, spat on, threatened and harassed by patients with surprising regularity. In a 2014 survey, almost 80 percent of nurses reported being attacked … Read More
December 30, 2014
(Scientific American) – A health worker who has become the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in Britain was being treated at a London hospital on Tuesday after contracting the disease in West Africa. The woman arrived from Scotland … Read More
December 22, 2014
(Health News Digest) – As the American Nurses Association (ANA) embarks on a yearlong campaign to highlight the importance of nursing ethics and their impact on patients and health care quality, the annual Gallup survey on trust in professions shows the … Read More
December 18, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – One of Sierra Leone’s most senior physicians died Thursday from Ebola, the 11th doctor in the country to succumb to the disease, a health official said. Ebola has killed more than 350 health workers in West Africa, … Read More
December 18, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Doctors and nurses are traditionally thought to be the primary caretakers of patients in a typical hospital setting. But according to a study at the burn center intensive care unit at Loyola University Health System, three physicians, … Read More
December 17, 2014
(Nature) – While foreign assistance must continue, a nascent local strategy is a candidate for broad adoption. We call it MORE, for MObilization of REcovered individuals. The idea is simple: those who have recovered from Ebola could be engaged to … Read More
December 9, 2014
(Oncology Nurse Advisor) – A study of elderly patients with cancer during their last year of life, especially those with poor-prognosis cancers, found that patients who received hospice care were five times less likely to die in a hospital or … Read More
December 5, 2014
(Oncology Nurse Advisor) – Physician-patient communication about goals of care is a low risk, high value intervention for patients with a life threatening illness, the American College of Physicians (ACP) advised in a paper published in JAMA Internal Medicine (2014; … Read More
December 4, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – In what is believed to be the first interview-style qualitative study of its kind among health care providers in the trenches, a team led by a Johns Hopkins geriatrician has further documented barriers to better care of … Read More
November 20, 2014
(New York Times) – The case of a Navy medical officer who refused to force-feed prisoners on a hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay prompted the country’s largest nursing organization on Wednesday to petition the Defense Department for leniency, citing professional … Read More
November 19, 2014
(Newswise) – In the wake of media focus on the trials and bravery of nurses in the context of the Ebola crisis, leaders in the fields of nursing and clinical ethics have released an unprecedented report on the ethical issues … Read More
November 18, 2014
(The Daily Beast) – Schwarz, who is 70, estimates that she’s guided more than 100 patients through similar life-ending fasts. Unlike the lethal drugs that recently ended Brittany Maynard’s life in Oregon, voluntary stopping of eating and drinking—VSED, as it’s … Read More
