Nurses interact with people during some of their most vulnerable moments and in highly personal ways. It’s why they often find themselves confronted with challenging ethical dilemmas that require ...

SILVER SPRING, MD, Jan. 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the American Nurses Association (ANA) Center for Ethics & Human Rights released the highly anticipated 2025 revision of the Code of Ethics ...

Background: Oncology nurses routinely encounter ethical dilemmas when caring for advanced cancer patients, particularly concerning prognosis-related communications. Nurses experience uncertainty and ...

The oncology nursing staff faced a critical dilemma. A 70-year-old woman with advanced cancer was declining rapidly and unable to communicate. Her nurses strongly believed that her care should shift ...

Communication problems are a common conflict in healthcare, and likely lead to clinical ethics consultations, according to Nursing Ethics. The main purpose of such consultations is to discuss ...

A new report from the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics highlights a number of ethical issues facing nurses in the healthcare industry, in the wake of the first National Nursing Ethics ...

For 18 consecutive years, the public has ranked nursing as the most honest and ethical profession. Once again, Americans have ranked nurses as the most honest and ethical professionals in Gallup's ...

Hospital leaders already know nurses are leaving the bedside — and countless more are turning away from the profession — for myriad reasons. But do they really understand why? Cynda Hylton Rushton, ...

AcademyHealth has released a new voluntary code of ethics for use in recruiting foreign-educated nurses. The code, authored by a task force of union members, healthcare organizations, educational and ...

The types of ethical dilemmas reported by the oncology nurses fell into 3 main categories: (a) truth telling, (b) conflicting obligations, and (c) futility. Similar concepts were grouped into 4 ...