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 ...

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

On any given day, the average nurse uses his or her knowledge, training and ethical standards to make countless moral decisions regarding patient health. Both minor issues and complex emergencies must ...

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 ...

Annual Gallup poll has ranked nursing as America’s most-trusted profession for 21 consecutive years. Nurses’ ability to ensure their patients’ well-being is among the reasons why they rate the highest ...

One-third of newly licensed registered nurses leave the field after just two years. Citing moral distress as a major factor, Professor Cynda Rushton, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, of the Johns Hopkins School of ...

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, ...

Registered nurses protect and promote health, prevent illness and injury and alleviate suffering. We apply critical thinking and the latest evidence, and follow standards, policies and procedures and ...

Profession beat out doctors for top spot on annual Gallup poll Nurses once again top Gallup’s annual Honesty and Ethics poll. This is the 20th straight year Americans ranked the profession as No. 1.

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 ...