Nursing Ethics

2017, Vol. 24(4) 506–510

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International Care Ethics Observatory News

The International Care Ethics (ICE) Observatory is based in the School of Health and Social Care, Faculty
of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
The overall aim of the ICE Observatory is to engage in research and scholarship that illuminates the
importance and complexity of care activities and underpins innovative and effective interventions that
develop and sustain ethical care practices. The ICE Observatory acts as an inter-disciplinary, national and
international hub of educational, organizational and research expertise and activity to revalue care and
promote an in-depth understanding of, and commitment to, ethics in health and social care. In addition to
initiating and promoting international research, the Centre also hosts an annual conference, regular ethics
seminars and a postgraduate professional ethics summer school.
Go to http://www.surrey.ac.uk/fhms/research/centres/ICE/

18th Nursing Ethics Conference and 3rd International Ethics in Care

Conference
15 and 16 September 2017, Leuven, Belgium
In 2017, both the ICE Observatory of the University of Surrey (UK) and the Centre for Biomedical Ethics
and Law of the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) will organize the18th Nursing Ethics Conference
and the 3rd International Ethics in Care Conference – an excellent occasion to reflect on future challenges
and opportunities of ethics in nursing and care.
Practitioners, researchers, educators, managers and students in the field of health and social care from
around the world are invited to attend and participate in this conference to engage in plenary lectures, panel
discussions and oral presentations.
More information can be found at www.nursingethics2017.org

Call for Nominations: Human Rights and Nursing Awards

The Human Rights and Nursing Awards are presented to any nurse in recognition of an outstanding
commitment to human rights and exemplifying the essence of nursing’s philosophy of humanity.

Criteria for the Human Rights and Nursing Award

The Directors and local Management Committee review all nominations for the Human Rights Award
annually:
1. The contributions and accomplishments of the nominee must be of international significance to
human rights.
2. The contributions of the nominee have influenced healthcare and/or nursing practice.
Please contact Dr Verena Tschudin, University of Surrey, if you know of a nurse in your country who is
worthy of such an award. There is now a significant financial component and these awards can help develop
human rights-related activities.
Verena can be reach via email at v.tschudin@surrey.ac.uk and v.tschudin@btinternet.com
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Third Edition of the Summer Course on Ethics in Dementia Care

The Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law of the KU Leuven is organizing the third edition of the Summer
Course on Ethics in Dementia Care (Leuven, Belgium, 5–7 July 2017). The objective of the course is to
foster exchanges on foundational, clinical-ethical and organizational-ethical approaches to dementia care
practices.
During the Summer Course, national and international experts will give presentations on various ethical
topics in the domain of dementia care. There will be time for intensive discussions. The language of
instruction will be English.
The Summer Course is of interest to participants from diverse professional backgrounds, such as
medicine, nursing, psychology, social work, gerontology, healthcare administration, philosophy and theol-
ogy and to PhD students undertaking courses of study in these areas. Detailed information on program,
funding opportunities, registration and payment can be found at www.cbmer.be under Summer Course

Summer school on Health Law and Ethics 2017

The Erasmus Observatory on Health Law/Institute of Health Policy & Management (Erasmus University
Rotterdam) announces the annual Summer school on Health Law and Ethics (Rotterdam, Netherlands, 28
June to 7 July 2017) providing students, academics, professionals and practitioners with an opportunity for
intensive training in various aspects of health law and ethics over a 2-week period (you can sign up for 1
week or 2 weeks) while absorbing the sights, sounds and culture unique to Rotterdam and the Netherlands.
The Summer school offers a custom-developed course taught by leading academics in their field.
Detailed information on program, registration and payment can be found at https://www.bmg.eur.nl/eras
mus_observatory_on_health_law/summerschool_on_health_law_and_ethics_2017/

Online Newsfeeds about Nursing Ethics and Healthcare Ethics

Automated newsfeeds from Nursing Times.net
For up-to-date news items, analysis and nursing practice, please visit http://www.nursingtimes.net/register/
or follow on Twitter: @NursingTimes

Automated newsfeeds from NSW Health

This website provides up-to-date information on developments in health law and ethics from Australia and
around the world. For more information visit http://www.ehln.org/ or follow on Twitter:
@EthicsHealthLaw

Online Resources on Nursing Ethics and Healthcare Ethics

International Council for Nurses Code of Ethics
For the latest revised 2012 version of the Code of ethics for Nurses, please visit http://www.icn.ch/about-
icn/code-of-ethics-for-nurses/
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Top 25 Nursing Ethics Blogs

The International Centre for Nursing Ethics (ICNE) is listed as one of the top 25 nursing ethics blogs. For
more information on other blogs, see http://lpntobsnonline.org/2010/top-25-nursing-ethics-blogs/ or follow
on Twitter: @LPN2BSNOnline

World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published the document ‘Global health ethics: key issues’,
which aims to assist policy-makers, healthcare providers and researchers to understand key concepts in
health ethics and to identify basic ethical questions surrounding health and healthcare. It illustrates the
challenges of applying ethical principles to global public health and outlines practical strategies for dealing
with those challenges. More information can be found at http://www.who.int/ethics/publications/global-
health-ethics/en/

Hastings Center
This website offers news, information and resources relating to fundamental ethical issues in the areas of
health, medicine and environment that affect individuals, communities and societies. For more information,
visit http://www.thehastingscenter.org/ or follow on Twitter: @hastingcenter

BioEdge
BioEdge is edited by Michael Cook who is based in Melbourne, Australia, and provides regular updates and
news regarding bioethics around the world.
Go to http://www.bioedge.org/or follow on Twitter: @bioedge

Global Health Ethics

The Global Health Ethics website offers a virtual space for dialogue on shared ethical concerns and support
on unique ethical dilemmas. This website is available in several languages.
Go to http://www.globalhealthethics.org

Global Ethics Observatory

The Global Ethics Observatory (GEObs) is a system of databases covering a range of areas in bioethics and
applied ethics in science and technology such as environmental ethics, science ethics and technology ethics.
This website is available in six different languages via the UNESCO (The United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization) platform.
Go to http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/global-ethics-observatory/
access-geobs/

Amnesty International
This website offers news, information and resources relating to health and human rights. Readers can sign
up for the fortnightly electronic bulletin for health professionals and access links to related websites.
Go to http://www.amnesty.org/en/health-and-human-rights or follow on Twitter: @amnesty
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International Bioethics Committee

The International Bioethics Committee (IBC) is a body of 36 independent experts that follows progress in
the life sciences and its applications in order to ensure respect for human dignity and freedom. It was created
in 1993. For more information on the work of this committee, visit the link http://www.unesco.org/new/en/
social-and-human-sciences/themes/bioethics/international-bioethics-committee/

Center for Ethics and Human Rights of the American Nurses Association
The Center is committed to addressing the complex ethical and human rights issues confronting nurses and
designing activities and programs to increase the ethical competence and human rights sensitivity of nurses.
Through the Center, American Nurses Association’s (ANA) abiding commitment to the human rights
dimensions of healthcare is demonstrated.
Go to http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/EthicsStandards

Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics promotes academic research and educational activities
globally in the field of bioethics and aims at engaging students, trainees, the public and policy-makers in
serious discourse about related issues. The bulletin website offers news, information and resources relating
to bioethics.
Go to http://bioethicsbulletin.org/ or follow on Twitter: @bermaninstitute

Canadian Bioethics Society

The Canadian Bioethics Society (CBS) is a national, member-driven, registered charity serving as a forum
for individuals interested in sharing ideas relating to bioethics. Members of the CBS are engaged in a wide
variety of activities including research in bioethics, health policy, bioethics teaching and education,
research ethics, delivery and planning of health and healthcare, and public engagement and consultation
on bioethics issues, among others. For more information, visit the link https://www.bioethics.ca/

WHO Global Health Ethics Unit

The Global Health Ethics Unit (WHO) provides a focal point for the examination of ethical issues raised by
activities throughout the Organization. The unit also supports Member States in addressing ethical issues that
arise in their own countries. This includes a range of global bioethics topics, from public health surveillance to
developments in genomics and from research with human beings to fair access to health services.
Go to http://www.who.int/ethics/en/

PEA Soup
PEA Soup is a blog designed to provide a forum for discussing philosophy, ethics, and academia. Its mission
is to transcend geographical barriers so that moral philosophers from across the globe can converse in much
the way that they would with their nearby colleagues. The primary subject matter is ethics, where this
includes not only metaethics, normative ethical theory, and applied ethics, but also cognate areas of
philosophy, including political philosophy, philosophy of action, and personal identity. The secondary foci
are other philosophical issues and professional issues, such as those that arise in teaching philosophy.
Go to http://peasoup.typepad.com/peasoup/
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The Ethics Blog – Uppsala Universitet – Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics
The majority of the blog content deals with the research that is conducted at Centre for Research Ethics &
Bioethics (CRB). Blog posts are often about biobanks and healthcare. But that is not all: the authors write
about everything from neurophilosophy to genetic risk information. The Swedish blog covers more of the
current national debate, while its English sister is more geared toward the bioethics research community.
Pär Segerdahl is editor of both blogs and they are run together with BBMRI.se. He invites you to have a
look, a read and a bit of dialogue with us at Etikbloggen and the Ethics Blog.
Go to https://ethicsblog.crb.uu.se/

Practical Ethics Blog – University of Oxford

In the blog Practical Ethics where you can find daily ethical analysis of news events written by authors
drawn from students and researchers in four centres based at the Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford,
and from our visitors and guest authors. The authors focus on current events with practical ethical relevance,
including developments in science and technology, environmental policy, public health, and information
ethics.
Go to http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/ or follow on Twitter: @ethicsinthenews