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BMC Med Ethics
November 2024
School of Nursing, Zarqa University, Zarqa, Jordan.
Background: Recently, the concept of expanded terminal sedation emerged to describe using sedation at the end of life in cases beyond the usual use. Using this sedation could be a stressful ethical encounter for healthcare providers.
Case: In this paper, we describe a case of a Muslim palliative care nurse who cared for a patient with cancer who requested expanded terminal sedation.
Crit Care Nurse
October 2024
Lisa LaRock is the senior director of System Trauma Services, Guthrie Clinic, Pennsylvania and New York, and a trauma program manager, Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, Pennsylvania.
Background: From 2018 to 2022, mass shooting incidents in the United States increased by 67.7%. Health care-associated shootings also increased.
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August 2024
College of Healthcare Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4814, Australia.
Introduction: Australia's remote health sector has chronic understaffing issues and serves an isolated, culturally diverse population with a high burden of disease. Workplace health and safety (WHS) impacts the wellbeing and sustainability of the remote health workforce. Additionally, poor WHS contributes to burnout, high turnover of staff and reduced quality of care.
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August 2024
Nursing Department, University of Applied Sciences Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria.
This article explores nursing, patient records, and ideology within the context of the National Socialist "euthanasia" program ( T4) in Germany and Austria from 1939 to 1941, which targeted individuals with mental and physical disabilities for systematic killing. Using Hannah Arendt's concept of the "banality of evil," it examines how ordinary individuals, including nurses, became agents of atrocity by adhering to bureaucratic orders. Jacques Ellul's Ethics of Technology framework is employed to analyze how National Socialist ideology manipulated technological processes to enhance efficiency in genocidal goals.
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