November 12, 2019
(New York Times) – Anyone who has been a caregiver will relate to the unending grind of Joan’s decline, to Kleinman’s exhaustion and to his efforts to keep going. And he’s one of the lucky ones: He has the financial … Read More
November 1, 2019
(The Washington Post) – “California’s right to die law strictly governs the conditions under which terminally ill adult patients with the capacity to make medical decisions can be prescribed an aid-in-dying medication,” Spitzer said in a statement. “That was not … Read More
October 29, 2019
(Kaiser Health News) – Peggy Goebel, a nurse from Windsor, was helping oversee the medical operation, run largely by volunteers who had responded to calls from Goebel or their employers to lend their services. They provided basic care (like making … Read More
September 27, 2019
(The Conversation) – Current legislation guards the right of health-care providers to conscientiously object to participation in MAiD. Nurses who do conscientiously object have a professional obligation to inform their employers of that objection, to report requests for MAiD, and … Read More
September 20, 2019
(Undark) – Medical textbooks like Oxford Medical Education dryly state that “the aim of the ABCDE assessment is to keep the patient alive and achieve the first steps to improvement.” Emergency physicians and nurses across the world use the ABCDE … Read More
September 18, 2019
Nursing Philosophy (vol. 20, no. 1, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Bearing Witness in Nursing Practice: More Than a Moral Obligation?” by Mikelle Djkowich, Christine Ceci, and Olga Petrovskaya “Perspectives on Phronesis in Professional Nursing Practice” … Read More
September 16, 2019
Nursing Ethics (vol. 25, no. 8, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Nurses’ Moral Experiences of Assisted Death: A Meta-Synthesis of Qualitative Research” by James Elmore, David Kenneth Wright, and Maude Paradis “Meaning in Life of Older … Read More
September 6, 2019
(New York Times) – Some have policies that forbid nurses even to discuss end of life options. Others hold a “neutral” stance on aid in dying, but bar doctors or nurses from being in the room while a patient self-ingests … Read More
September 4, 2019
(New York Times) – We should not be surprised, then, that some patients who do enroll in hospice end up back in the hospital. And yet we in palliative care often view these cases as failures. We wonder what the … Read More
August 28, 2019
(ABC News) – Vermont’s largest hospital forced a nurse to participate in an abortion procedure over her moral objections in violation of federal law, a government civil rights agency said Wednesday. The University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington could … Read More
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