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

Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) are expected to play a key role in nursing practice in the future. In this regard, researchers from Japan ask whether intelligent machines can replace humans as ...

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 ...

Q:How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect you and the nurses you work with? Nurses faced ethical issues every day before the pandemic, and the number of challenges has increased dramatically with ...

Nurses have again reached the top spot in Gallup’s annual Most Honest and Ethical Professions Poll. It’s the 21st year in a row Americans have ranked the profession highest for its ethics, the company ...

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.

Data will be collected from nurse leaders through November. Ethical challenges that nurse leaders face during crisis situations—a pandemic, for example—is the subject of a research study seeking ...

A nurses strike scheduled to begin on Christmas Eve threatens operations at three Southern California hospitals as the nurses allege that work conditions put staff safety at risk. The Hospital ...

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 ...

Wocial is part of a resource team that helps patients, their families and fellow nurses grapple with difficult ethical issues. She supports them through education and training. As told to Ruben ...