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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A persistent shortage of nursing staff across the United States challenges the belief and values of this profession. Many nurses may find it difficult to carry out their ethical obligations to ...

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 ...

A Navy nurse faces possible discharge for refusing to participate in force-feeding detainees. It's a test case for nurses in all practice settings who are faced with ethical issues every day. Nurses ...

After two years of pandemic, two years in which health care providers have literally been on the front lines of the war against COVID-19, nurses are still the most trusted professionals, according to ...

The most respected professions in the U.S. each played a pivotal role in the nation’s battle against COVID-19, waged throughout the year. Nurses, doctors and grade school teachers received the highest ...