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A comprehensive overview of the legal and political controversy over the care of Terri Schiavo, a woman in a persistent vegetative state, from 1998 to 2005. Learn about her background, medical condition, husband, parents, and the court battles that involved state and federal governments.
The Monster Study: United States Iowa 1939 The Monster Study is the name given to a stuttering experiment performed on orphan children in Davenport, Iowa in 1939. It was conducted by Wendell Johnson at the University of Iowa. The research began with the selection of 22 subjects from a veterans' orphanage in Iowa.
The experimental protocol was explained to a group of twelve nurses and twenty-one nursing students, who were asked to predict how many nurses would give the drug to the patient; ten nurses and all the nursing students said they would not do it. Hofling then selected 22 nurses at a hospital in the United States for the actual experiment.
The Declaration of Helsinki is a set of ethical principles for human research developed by the World Medical Association in 1964. It covers topics such as respect for the individual, informed consent, risk-benefit assessment, oversight, publication and conflict of interest.
The Nuremberg Code is a set of ten principles created by a U.S. military tribunal after World War II to regulate medical research on humans. It was based on the Hippocratic Oath and the Nazi war crimes trials, and it emphasized voluntary consent, scientific validity, and beneficence.
Nursing is a health care profession that integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning. Learn about the origins, development, and specialties of nursing from ancient times to the present.
Medical ethics is an applied branch of ethics that analyzes the practice of clinical medicine and related scientific research. It is based on a set of values that professionals can refer to in case of any confusion or conflict, such as respect for autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice.
She is the co-author of four books, including Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing Education: An Essential Guide, DNP Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice, and Legal Issues Confronting Today's Nursing Faculty: A Case-Study Approach. She has received the American Journal of Nursing Book-of-the-Year Award for her two of these books.