Catholic Nurses Continued Education Opportunity
Continuing Education Credits (CEU) offered through the St. JP II Foundation. Please click the link below if you are interested: Converging Roads Conference Schedule
The Moral Uncertainty of “Brain Death”
Article from Homiletic & Pastoral Review posted here for our members. Read and reviewed by the NACN-USA Ethics Committee. 1968 was a year of upheaval, perhaps best remembered by Americans for the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, and by Catholics for the promulgation of Humanae vitae. But the unobtrusive coining of a new definition should be included with these momentous events, for it changed medical practice by shifting the boundary between life and death. In 1968 the Harvard Medical School Ad Hoc Committee introduced the oxymoronic definition “irreversible coma [...]
Chemical Abortion and Nationwide Invitation to Prayer
The USCCB's president and the chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Pro-Life Activities announced a nationwide invitation to prayer. On March 26, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that could impact the widespread accessibility of chemical abortion (abortion pills). Chemical abortions are now the most common form of abortion in the United States. WHEN Beginning Monday, March 25 and continuing through June, when a decision is expected. HOW TO PARTICIPATE Offer this Prayer to St. Joseph, Defender of Life daily for the end of [...]
Catholic Nurses and Supreme Court Brief
National Association of Catholic Nurses, USA is the national professional organization for Catholic nurses in the United States. A nonprofit group of hundreds of nurses of different backgrounds, the NACN-USA focuses on promoting moral principles of patient advocacy, human dignity, and professional and spiritual development in the integration of faith and health within the Catholic context in nursing. Its members are critically concerned for the wellbeing of women and their unborn children threatened by the FDA-approved protocol for prescribing and dispensing mifepristone, described herein. * * * The current FDA [...]
NACN-USA Educational Session-“Why Patients Declared Brain Dead Are Really Brain Injured.”
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
Parental Rights Letter to Chairwoman Foxx
The NACN-USA Board of Directors agreed to co-sign on a Parental Rights letter dated March 21,2023. Read the entire letter here. The letter was addressed to the Honorable Virginia Foxx Chairwoman House of Representatives Committee on Education & the Workforce where it identified concerns of protecting Parental Rights towards the health and well being of all children. The House of Representatives agreed to create a "Parents Bill of Rights" acknowledging the rights of parents to view school curriculums including topics on health education, fundamental right of parents to direct their [...]
Nurses Fight to Protect Freedom and Conscience
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 [...]
Pope Speaks on Human Trafficking
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.
End of Life Doula on Sacred Heart Radio
Bonnie Blachly MSN, RN, Certified End of Life Doula, Catholic Nurse and Regional Director for Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands & American Samoa was interviewed on Dan Kennedy's Life Talk NW on Sacred Heart Radio. Bonnie shares her end-of-life class, Birthing Your Soul into Eternal Life, which she co-developed to train lay persons, parishioners, and healthcare professionals on preparation for death, dying, grief, mourning and bereavement. The class is just a portion of the ministry, Momento Mori which Bonnie also presented at the CICIAMS World Congress [...]