PART II Nursing Ethics Across the Life Span

Chapter 5  Infant and Child Nursing Ethics

Chapter 6 Adolescent Nursing Ethics

Chapter 7 Adult Health Nursing Ethics

Chapter 8 Ethics and the Nursing Care of Elders

Chapter 9 Ethical Issues in End-of-Life Nursing Care

QUIZ PLANNING COMMITTEE:

Wendy Stiver, RN, CCM, BSN, MA, Content Expert

Ms. Stiver has been a Registered Nurse since 1981 and has worked in a variety of adult patient care settings. She served as Chair of the Practice and Education Committee of the Health Ministries Association in the late 1990s, and as the founding Regional Liaison of the Greater Los Angeles-San Gabriel Valley Chapter of the Transcultural Nursing Society during that same decade. She was privileged to study graduate bioethics at Azusa Pacific University under Rev. Dr. Marsha Fowler, and qualitative research and grounded theory with Dr. Barbara M. Artinian.

She participated in the Ethics Committee at Huntington Memorial Hospital while working as a staff nurse in acute oncology and medical telemetry. Ms. Stiver has extensive experience in case management, staff development, as a clinical educator, and as a lecturer in both community and university settings.  She was awarded a Southern California Cancer Pain Initiative Award for Excellence in Pain Management in 2005 for her work developing a pain relief team at a southern California hospital and has also developed stress management programs for staff in several Los Angeles area facilities.  She is currently a member of the Oncology Nursing Society and a Board-Certified Case Manager.  She is a Research Scholar with the Global Association of Human Trafficking Scholars, and co-leader of the Translational Research Workgroup.

Lilah Harper, RN, BSN, MA, PhD, Accredited Provider Program Director 

Dr. Harper participated in planning, quiz development, implementation and evaluation of this course. She earned her BS in Nursing and Master of Arts degrees from University of Arizona; her MA focused on tests and measurements, early childhood development, and adult education. She completed an Executive Program in Health Policy and Management at Harvard University and received a PhD in Education, focusing on curriculum and instruction, from Suffield University. Dr. Harper is a former Vice President of the Arizona Board of Nursing and has held varied positions in nursing, including: Staff Nurse, Nursing Administrator, Staff Development, Research, Nursing Education, Clinical Trials Management, and Legal Nurse Consulting.

Dr. Harper is also the President of Harper Consulting Services, a California-based organization that develops educational materials.