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Dying in Agony in America’s Nursing Homes – Case Study Poses Ethical...
“Oh, that hurts! You’re hurting me. Please, please, just leave me alone. Please stop.” These were the words of Louis Daly, a friendly, cognitively alert African American man in his late 80s, as nurses...
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Nurse’s Aide Brings Nursing Home Sexual Abuse to Light—But Why Did It Take So...
A few weeks ago I came across an article in a Virginia newspaper in which reporter Mike Owens wrote about the arrest of James Wright, who was indicted on four counts of aggravated sexual battery...
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Do Patients Have a Right to Choose Providers Based on Race?
By mmarcotte51/via Flickr By Shawn Kennedy, AJN editorial director We have a wonderful librarian here at AJN who is always on the alert for news about nursing and nurses. Recently she sent me a...
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Military Metaphors, Unnecessary Admissions, New Blogs, Keeping Secrets
It’s a common scenario: a 90-year-old resident of a U.S. nursing home — call her Ms. B. — has moderately advanced Alzheimer’s disease, congestive heart failure with severe left-ventricular dysfunction,...
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A Nurse Ethicist’s Analysis of a Recent Nursing Home Sexual Consent Case
By Douglas P. Olsen, PhD, RN, associate professor, Michigan State University College of Nursing in East Lansing, associate editor of Nursing Ethics, and a contributing editor of AJN, where he regularly...
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