Contributor - Melinda Rubinstein Nurses have long carried the burden of disconnected health information. As healthcare enters the AI era, nurse designers have a critical role in shaping the data foundation for what comes next. Nurses rarely have the luxury of caring for a patient with the whole story neatly assembled in front of them. … Continue reading Before Healthcare Builds on AI, We Need to Fix the Foundation
Ethics
Nominations open for two Nursing Ethics awards
Nursing Ethics ResourcesEthical Knowing in NursingSociey for Nursing Ethics International To Nominate: Click HEREDEADLINE: November 9, 2026 The DAISY Foundation and the American Nurses Association’s Center for Ethics and Human Rights developed the national DAISY Awards for Nursing Ethics in Practice and Leadership in 2024 to recognize nurses whose leadership, compassion, and clinical practice demonstrate … Continue reading Nominations open for two Nursing Ethics awards
ANS Ethics Collection on SONEI.org
The Society for Nursing Ethics International (SONEI) is currently featuring a series of blog posts exploring articles on nursing ethics published in Advances in Nursing Science (ANS) during the journal’s first 12 years. The series began on July 28 and will continue through February 2027. As each post is published, it becomes part of the … Continue reading ANS Ethics Collection on SONEI.org
The Ethical Tension Between Process and Humanistic Patient Consent
Contributors – Rachell NguyenDave Calubaquib Generated by ChatGPT Imagine a preoperative nurse busy managing a full panel of patients. The clock is ticking, surgical suites are ready, and everyone feels the pressure of time. Suddenly, a patient, gowned and with an intravenous (IV) catheter in place, just moments from being moved in, looks up with … Continue reading The Ethical Tension Between Process and Humanistic Patient Consent
Revisiting the Foundations of Nursing Ethics: The ANS Ethics Collection
What can nursing ethics scholarship from the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s teach us about ethical knowing in nursing today? A new collection from the Society for Nursing Ethics International (SONEI) gives us an opportunity to revisit this question. The newly developed SONEI website is featuring a series of blog posts focused on classic articles … Continue reading Revisiting the Foundations of Nursing Ethics: The ANS Ethics Collection
Beyond signing a form: relational ethics in research with older adults
Más allá de firmar un formulario: la ética relacional en la investigación con personas mayores Contributor - Francisco Javier Arroyo Cruz As nursing professionals, or as researchers, we often find ourselves with a dual identity. On the one hand, we have the need to generate science and knowledge in the face of global demographic aging; … Continue reading Beyond signing a form: relational ethics in research with older adults
Announcing – the Society for Nursing Ethics International (SONEI)
It is always SONEI in Nursing Ethics……with apologies for a bit of morning pre-latte humor! The Society for Nursing Ethics International (SONEI.org) has been established and the website has gone 🎉 live! The website is fully open, fully accessible to subscribers and non-subscribers alike — and it is entirely FREE. Because, well, nurses are freely … Continue reading Announcing – the Society for Nursing Ethics International (SONEI)
The Second Set of Eyes
Contributor: Hephzibah Thomas MSN, RN-BC Working in an outpatient setting is where you are simultaneously coordinating care in-person, triaging a symptom-based call on MyChart, refilling medications, screening labs so you don’t miss a critical value, managing continuous overflow of patients so providers are running on time, de-escalating patient concerns, attending to Rapid Response calls, being … Continue reading The Second Set of Eyes
A Nurse’s Instinct, A Life Saved
Van Nguyen DNP, APRN, AGACNP-BC, FNP-C, PMGT-BC One of the most rewarding moments in my nursing career came unexpectedly during a routine shift that became anything but routine. I was assigned to care for a 52-year-old male with esophageal cancer, seven days post-op after an esophagectomy. Esophageal cancer accounts for 2.6% of all new cancer … Continue reading A Nurse’s Instinct, A Life Saved
Why I Will Not let Nursing Lose Caring
Contributor - Mariana Lori Jurist, BSN, RNPhD Student, FAU College of Nursing Caring, to me, is not an approach. It’s the reason I became a nurse, and the reason I stay one. I have learned that if I am not careful, the word caring can get treated like a soft add-on, something nice that sits … Continue reading Why I Will Not let Nursing Lose Caring
Action Defending Democracy: Overdue Reckoning on Racism in Nursing – March 28, April 4, 18 & 25
Co-contributors - Lucinda Canty, Christina Nyirati Over the past year, the Nursology.net team members have developed a thread of blogs focused on Action Defending Democracy. The "Overdue Reckoning" discussions provide a way for nurses to come together and engage in emancipatory action! These actions are fundamental to our ethical duty as nurses, and to emancipatory … Continue reading Action Defending Democracy: Overdue Reckoning on Racism in Nursing – March 28, April 4, 18 & 25
Emancipatory Nursing and the Limits of Political Neutrality
Contributor - Kaija Freborg, DNP, RN, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC Helpless. This is how a Minneapolis nurse described feeling in response to the militarized occupation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minnesota, an operation that is being used to disappear immigrants, racialized people, and others who stand in the way. With despair, the nurse recounted having … Continue reading Emancipatory Nursing and the Limits of Political Neutrality
Moral Anguish Demands Moral Action
Posts by Marsha Fowler In the early 1980s, Andy and I mused on many things including moral uncertainty, moral dilemma, and moral distress. We would never have thought that moral distress was entry level, barely across the threshold. Perhaps we now need “moral anguish.” Moral anguish: when we know what is right and good, but … Continue reading Moral Anguish Demands Moral Action
Call Them Somali Americans
Contributor - Kathleen "Katie" Clark, DNP, RN Witness - Why we cannot look away I write this as a nurse educator in Minneapolis, where federal immigration enforcement has become part of everyday life. As nurses, we have a fundamental responsibility to respond to the crises and challenges of our time, centering on emancipatory approaches. As … Continue reading Call Them Somali Americans
Nursing Voices in the US Immigrant Crisis
Alex Pretti, ICU nurse assassinated by ICE on January 24, 2026 At our January Nursology.net Advisory Team Zoom meeting, we heard from a colleague who lives and works in the great city of Minneapolis. She spoke of the suffering in her neighborhood, where people are being terrorized by atrocities committed against Brown people and others. … Continue reading Nursing Voices in the US Immigrant Crisis
Truth in Action and Presence in Practice: Integrating Gandhi’s Philosophy and the Careful Nursing Model in Contemporary Nursing
Contributor - Julie Joseph, MSN,RN, CCRNPhD Student, Texas Woman's University A Global Journey Toward Truth and Presence in Nursing Having practiced in India and Ireland, and currently working in the United States, I have observed nursing from diverse cultural perspectives. Across these contexts, one insight remains constant: nursing is more than a profession; it is … Continue reading Truth in Action and Presence in Practice: Integrating Gandhi’s Philosophy and the Careful Nursing Model in Contemporary Nursing
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) 25th Quadrennial Congress in Melbourne, May 2013: A Personal Recollection
Contributor - Miriam Hirschfeld, DNSc, RN Late in the year 2012 I am approached by Canadian colleagues requesting my help in their campaign to elect Prof. Judith Shamian, the Canadian Chief Nurse, as President of the International Council of Nurses (ICN). Judith is a friend, I am delighted to try to help, knowing also that … Continue reading The International Council of Nurses (ICN) 25th Quadrennial Congress in Melbourne, May 2013: A Personal Recollection
Nursing Ethics is a Century Older than Bioethics
Marsha Fowler's Nursology.net postsNursing Ethics, 1880s to the Present: An Archaeology of Lost Wisdom and Identity The earliest nursing ethics literature began with modern nursing itself. It was a main ingredient, baked into the cake of nursing, and was not decorative frosting. It went on to become an extraordinary and extensive body of literature in … Continue reading Nursing Ethics is a Century Older than Bioethics
Big Health Care Data Research and Consent
Guest Contributor: Fengyan DengPhD student at Texas Woman's University, CRNA at Texas Medical Center Houston Methodist Hospital The origin of the word "big data" is vague. Only in 2012 did The New York Times publish multiple articles that helped bring the concept of "Big Data" into the mainstream. The most significant impact was Steve Lohr's … Continue reading Big Health Care Data Research and Consent
Bird Brains, Edge Group Effect, and Nursing Knowledge Drift
"The Hudsonian Godwit makes a trip from breeding grounds in arctic Alaska almost to the southernmost tip of South America—just under 10,000 miles!" - Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology When I was a child we called one another “birdbrain” when we had done something stupid or counterproductive. It was a harsh insult. But in more recent years a significant … Continue reading Bird Brains, Edge Group Effect, and Nursing Knowledge Drift