Please take some time to watch this video. NACN-USA offered this presentation to their membership in April 2023. Click the link below to view the presentation: https://youtu.be/eGWhmkOldHo
Why Patients Declared Brain Dead are Really Brain Injured Join us in this special presentation by Mr. Michael Arthur Vacca, JD who will present why patients declared brain dead are really brain injured. Mr. Vacca is a Catholic Lawyer, Certified Catholic Bioethicist and Spiritual Director, Chairman of Healthcare Civil Rights Task Force at Christ Medicus Foundation. He will present on: The history of “brain death” and why it was invented by doctors at Harvard The medical, philosophical, and theological reasons why “brain death” is not the actual death of the [...]
Read international Catholic Nurse news from around the world. In this Spring 2024 Newsletter read about: From the International President’s Desk – Dr. Rosemary Khosi Mthethwa, MPH, PhD, RN Meet CICIAMS’ International Ecclesiastical Assistant Divine Mercy Sunday April 16, 2023 CICIAMS Executive Board Meeting February 18-19, 2023, Rome, Italy Easter Vigil 2023 – Excerpt from the Homily of His Holiness Pope Francis Are you a Nurse who is Catholic or a Catholic Nurse? Regional Presidents in Action – Featured Africa Region CICIAMS Representing Catholic Nurses and Member Associations Internationally NWGI [...]
Catholic Nurses are fighting to protect religious freedom and conscience rights in providing care with a recent co-authored statement to the Biden Administration's Health and Human Services. Public Comment Opposed to Some of the Provisions in “Safeguarding the Rights of Conscience as Protected by Federal Statutes" [RIN 0945-AA18]1 Doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals must be free to practice their professions in accordance with their professional judgment and ethical beliefs. Without religious freedom and conscience protections such as were provided for in the 2019 Final Rule, healthcare professionals throughout the [...]
February 8, 2023 marks the memorial of Saint Josephine Bakhita, patron saint of victims of human trafficking. Join Pope Francis in celebrating the Ninth International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking, on the theme “Journeying in Dignity”. Read the Pope's message.
Read international Catholic Nurse news from around the world. In this Winter 2023 edition read about: From the International President’s Desk – Dr. Rosemary Khosi Mthethwa, MPH, PhD, RN Message of His Holiness Pope Francis XXXI World Day of the Sick (11 February 2023) Are you a Nurse who is Catholic or a Catholic Nurse? Regional Presidents in Action – Featured Asian Region CICIAMS Representing Catholic Nurses and Member Associations Internationally Caring for Patients in the Context of Canada’s Culture of Death: Catholic Nurses Advocate Restrictions on Euthanasia In Memoria -Bernie [...]
Read international Catholic Nurse news from around the world. In this Fall 2022 edition read about: From the International President’s Desk – Dr. Rosemary Khosi Mthethwa, MPH, PhD, RN CICIAMS XXI World Congress was held at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, The United States of America (USA) and hosted by the National Association of Catholic Nurses, U.S.A. (NACN-USA). Keynote Address – Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson Nursing: When & Where Science Meets the Supernatural – Day #1 Integration of Catholic Teaching: Individual, Family and Community – [...]
Read international Catholic Nurse news from around the world. In this Winter 2020 edition read about: Editorial Comments - Donatus Akpan Secretary General The Importance of the Virtue of Hope in our Work Advice to Nurses from Blessed Hanna Chrzanowska for these difficult times 2020: A Year for the Nurse and Midwife: A Year Indeed by Iyare, Beatrice Ehigiator RN, RAEN, RM, RNE - Nigeria A New Normal of Heart During COVID "The Nurse" by Anne Kabimba - Kenya
