Aimee Milliken PhD, RN, HEC-C When you think about ethics, what comes to mind? You may imagine famous cases you learned about in school, like Karen Ann Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, or Terri Schaivo. You might also think about interventions like medical aid in dying, gene editing, or euthanasia. Chances are, you might also remember cases you’ve … Continue reading Ethical awareness in everyday nursing practice
ANS Ethics Collection #2: Carper – The Ethics of Caring
ANS Ethics Collection – Entry 2 ↘️ Available for free download August 18- September 18, 2026 This article appeared in the third issue of ANS, six months after Carper's well-known classic work introducing her philosophic analysis of early nursing literature revealing four fundamental patterns of knowing in nursing (Carper, 1978). These articles were based in part … Continue reading ANS Ethics Collection #2: Carper – The Ethics of Caring
Cultural Differences in Conscientious Objection?
Maya Zumstein-Saha In today’s healthcare, certain treatments such as abortion procedures or palliative sedation can raise ethical concerns for health professionals asked to engage in them. The ethical concerns can emerge from health professionals’ own ethical and moral values, patients’ needs or wishes, or treatments’ potential risk for harm., and can be viewed differently depending … Continue reading Cultural Differences in Conscientious Objection?
A Collaborative Community
Facing Ethical Challenges Together A few weeks ago, I was watching my local news station as I was interested in a nurses’ strike at a hospital in my home area. I wanted to understand the reasons behind the strike. Previous strikes in California and New York were major headlines, mostly focused on patient care issues … Continue reading A Collaborative Community
Introducing: ANS Ethics Collection
ANS Ethics Collection - Entry 1 From 1979 through 1991, an unplanned series of articles focusing on nursing ethics appeared spontaneously and unsolicited in the journal Advances in Nursing Science (ANS). Each of the articles in this unplanned series has received its own acknowledgement in subsequent nursing literature, but the principles and the debate that … Continue reading Introducing: ANS Ethics Collection
Defining The Dual Nature of Nursing Ethics
SONEI represents an exciting opportunity for nursing to consolidate its power for good. We are a society interested in promoting nursing ethics globally. We start with what we are about: an explanation of what we mean by ‘nursing ethics’ as opposed to other types of ethics. While SONEI is only beginning, we anticipate sharing ideas, … Continue reading Defining The Dual Nature of Nursing Ethics
Another Welcome to the Society for Nursing Ethics International!
If you are curious about nursing ethics, and wonder what it is, you are at the right website. ❓❓❓🤔 Nursing Ethics is the professional ethics of nursing, that is, the native ethics that arose from within the community and tradition of nursing at the very start of modern nursing. Modern nursing and its ethics became … Continue reading Another Welcome to the Society for Nursing Ethics International!
Welcome to the Society for Nursing Ethics International! SONEI!
We are glad you have found us! We are a group of nurses from all walks of nursing who are dedicated to the ongoing development of nursing ethics in practice, education, administration, research, and scholarship. We are in the process of developing the content for this site, and will fill in each of the sections shown in … Continue reading Welcome to the Society for Nursing Ethics International! SONEI!