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Nightingale Pledge

The Florence Nightingale Pledge I solemnly pledge myself before God and in presence of this assembly. To pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drugs. I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling. With loyalty [...]

2017-03-26T00:00:00-04:00March 26, 2017|In The News, News, Patient Advocacy, Resources|

Urging AMA Not to Change Policy on Assisted Suicide

NACN-USA Urges AMA NOT to change their policy of opposition to physician assisted suicide In June 2016, at the annual meeting, the 540 members of the American Medical Association (AMA) house of delegates, representing all facets of the house of medicine, voted to ask the board of trustees to study the issue of physician assisted suicide. The board has referred the item to the AMA council on ethical and judicial affairs, which will conduct an in-depth literature review, and will ultimately report back to the house of delegates. Currently the [...]

The New Charter for Health Care Workers

The New Charter for Health Care Workers is a revision and updating of the earlier 1995 edition, also produced by the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers. The work is divided into three major sections: “Procreating,” “Living,” and “Dying,” each of which lays out authoritative teachings in medical ethics grounded in the traditional resources of the Church. There are extensive citations to magisterial documents. The book will be of service to all who are working in healthcare, especially those in Catholic facilities or who are attending [...]

Comments to ANA – VSED

NACN-USA Comment on ANA Draft Position Statement on Artificial Nutrition & Hydration Read ANA Comments   ANA Proposal on Nutrition & Hydration at the End of Life may Damage the Profession of Nursing and Patients If Adopted This proposal makes broad generalizations about the withholding of nutrition and hydration. Despite statistical reports about the overall benefit, or lack of benefit, of assisted nutrition and hydration in some cases at the end of life, all cases are case specific, and need to be assessed as such, to determine if assisted nutrition [...]

New Prefect – New Dicastery

Effective January 1, 2017, Pope Francis instituted the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development into which was merged the competences of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, and the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers. Within the Dicastery are: The Commission for Charity The Commission for Ecology The Commission for Health Care Workers   Cardinal Peter Turkson, the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, is the first prefect of [...]

Nurse Meehan Receives Vatican Recognition

Marylee Meehan, Vatican Swiss Guard, H.E. Monsignor Zygmunt Zimowski, President PCHCW & Dr. J.M. Simon, President World Federation of the Catholic Medical Associations Gratitude to Our Member and Past President from the Vatican Dear Ms Meehan, I am writing to you to express my personal gratitude and that of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers (for Health Pastoral Care) for the nearness and solidarity that you demonstrated to us on the occasion of the death of our President, Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski. He bore further valuable witness in [...]

Judicial and Amicus Briefs

• Stormans v. Wiesman - 2016-Pharmacists' Conscience Rights [READ ARTICLE] • Priests for Life v. Department of Health & Human Services [READ MORE] --- [READ CASE] • Hobby Lobby Stores Incorporated v. Federal Govt. Contraceptive Mandate [READ MORE] • Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Surgical Health Services, et al., v. Attorney General Gregory Abbott, et al. [READ MORE] • Planned Parenthood v. Brnovich, Arizona - True Informed Consent [READ MORE] --- [READ CASE] • The School of the Ozarks, Inc v. Right Choice Managed Care, Inc. (Contraceptive Mandate) [READ CASE] [...]

World Autism Awareness Day

Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Assistance of Health Care Workers Marylee Meehan, RNMember PCHCW The World Autism Awareness Day Message from the President of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers (for Health Pastoral Care) on the Occasion of the World Autism Awareness Day - 2 April 2016. From Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski: Message on the Occasion of World Autism Awareness Day April 2, 2016

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