Nurses Week Webinar #1: Code of Ethics

Carol Taylor, PhD, RN, is a Professor of Medicine and Nursing and a senior clinical scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. Experienced in caring for patients who are chronically and critically ill and their families, Carol chose doctoral work in philosophy with a concentration in bioethics because of a passion to “make health care work” for those who need it. At Georgetown Carol directs an innovative ethics curriculum grounded in a rich notion of moral agency for advanced practice student nurses and DNP students. She develops professional seminars in clinical and organizational ethics for health care professionals, health care leaders, and the public. Her research interests include clinical and professional ethics, and organizational integrity. Carol has a PhD in Philosophy with a concentration in bioethics from Georgetown University and a Master's Degree in Medical-Surgical Nursing from Catholic University; She now works closely with health care professionals and leaders who are exploring the ethical dimensions of their practice. She lectures internationally and writes on various issues in healthcare ethics and serves as an ethics consultant to systems and professional organizations. She is the primary author of Wolter Kluwer's Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Person-Centered Nursing Care, which is now in its 10th edition and co-editor of Health and Human Flourishing: Religion, Medicine and Moral Anthropology and the 4th edition of Case Studies in Nursing Ethics. She has served on the boards of Catholic health care systems, the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, and is a consultant to Hospice of the Valley, one of the largest not-for-profit hospices in the U.S.

Kara Curry is a Senior Policy and Ethics Advisor at the American Nurses Association Center for Ethics and Human Rights. She has served as a pediatric clinical ethicist in Washington, DC developing a true passion for the ethical complexities and challenges experienced in the field of pediatrics. Her other interests include nursing ethics, ethics education within the nursing profession, dementia ethics, as well as exploring intersectionality and the role it plays in the health outcomes of black women.

Dr. Liz Stokes is a nurse-attorney-bioethicist who serves as the Director of the ANA Center for Ethics and Human Rights with research areas of interest which include limited resuscitation efforts, medical aid-in-dying, artificial intelligence, intellectual disabilities, and women's reproductive health.

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