Cynda Hylton Rushton
Biographic Data
| ID | 6978427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynda Hylton Rushton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynda Hylton |
| FAMILY NAME | Rushton |
| SIGNATURE | RUSHTON C H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7582-5849 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ethics and Well-Being
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on health professionals, adding to the moral suffering and burnout that existed prepandemic. The physical, psychological, and moral toll of the pandemic has threatened the well-being and integrity of clinicians. The narrative of self-sacrifice and heroism bolstered people early on but was not sustainable over time. For health professions students, the learning environment changed dramatically, limit…
Strategies for Promoting High-Quality Care and Personal Resilience in Palliative Care
Palliative care (PC) clinicians are faced with ever-expanding pressures, which can make it difficult to fulfill their duties to self and others and lead to moral distress. Understanding the pressures that PC clinicians face and the resources that could be employed to ease their moral distress is crucial to maintaining a healthy PC workforce and to providing necessary PC services to patients. In this paper, we discuss recommendations related to tw…
Creating a Culture of Ethical Practice in Health Care Delivery Systems
Undisputedly, the United States’ health care system is in the midst of unprecedented complexity and transformation. In 2014 alone there were well over thirty‐five million admissions to hospitals in the nation, indicating that there was an extraordinary number of very sick and frail people requiring highly skilled clinicians to manage and coordinate their complex care across multiple care settings. Medical advances give us the ability to send pati…
Just and Realistic Expectations for Persons with Disabilities Practicing Nursing
The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability and requires schools to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities. The profession of nursing is striving for diversity and inclusion, but barriers still exist to realizing accommodations for people with disabilities. Promoting disclosure, a supportive and enabling environment, resilience, and realistic expectations are important considera…
Burnout and Resilience Among Nurses Practicing in High-Intensity Settings
BACKGROUND: The high level of stress experienced by nurses leads to moral distress, burnout, and a host of detrimental effects. OBJECTIVES: To support creation of healthy work environments and to design a 2-phase project to enhance nurses' resilience while improving retention and reducing turnover. METHODS: In phase 1, a cross-sectional survey was used to characterize the experiences of a high-stress nursing cohort. A total of 114 nurses in 6 hig…
Safeguarding the Public's Health
With the landmark 2010 Future of Nursing report by the Institute of Medicine largely silent about the ethical foundation of nursing and with growing concerns about the prominence of ethical issues that arise for individuals across all roles within nursing, it is clearly time for the profession to pause and consider its ethical foundations anew. In August 2014, fifty nursing leaders participated in the national summit Nursing Ethics for the 21st C…
Ethical Discernment and Action
Ethics in Critical Care| January 01 2009 Ethical Discernment and Action: The Art of Pause Cynda Hylton Rushton, RN, PhD, FAAN Cynda Hylton Rushton, RN, PhD, FAAN Cynda Hylton Rushton is Associate Professor of Nursing and Medicine, Core Faculty, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University and Children’s Center, Baltimore, MD 21287 ([email protected]). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar AACN Ad…
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Ethical Discernment and Action
Ethics in Critical Care| January 01 2009 Ethical Discernment and Action: The Art of Pause Cynda Hylton Rushton, RN, PhD, FAAN Cynda Hylton Rushton, RN, PhD, FAAN Cynda Hylton Rushton is Associate Professor of Nursing and Medicine, Core Faculty, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University and Children’s Center, Baltimore, MD 21287 ([email protected]). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar AACN Ad…
Burnout and Resilience Among Nurses Practicing in High-Intensity Settings
BACKGROUND: The high level of stress experienced by nurses leads to moral distress, burnout, and a host of detrimental effects. OBJECTIVES: To support creation of healthy work environments and to design a 2-phase project to enhance nurses' resilience while improving retention and reducing turnover. METHODS: In phase 1, a cross-sectional survey was used to characterize the experiences of a high-stress nursing cohort. A total of 114 nurses in 6 hig…
Safeguarding the Public's Health
With the landmark 2010 Future of Nursing report by the Institute of Medicine largely silent about the ethical foundation of nursing and with growing concerns about the prominence of ethical issues that arise for individuals across all roles within nursing, it is clearly time for the profession to pause and consider its ethical foundations anew. In August 2014, fifty nursing leaders participated in the national summit Nursing Ethics for the 21st C…
Creating a Culture of Ethical Practice in Health Care Delivery Systems
Undisputedly, the United States’ health care system is in the midst of unprecedented complexity and transformation. In 2014 alone there were well over thirty‐five million admissions to hospitals in the nation, indicating that there was an extraordinary number of very sick and frail people requiring highly skilled clinicians to manage and coordinate their complex care across multiple care settings. Medical advances give us the ability to send pati…
Just and Realistic Expectations for Persons with Disabilities Practicing Nursing
The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability and requires schools to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities. The profession of nursing is striving for diversity and inclusion, but barriers still exist to realizing accommodations for people with disabilities. Promoting disclosure, a supportive and enabling environment, resilience, and realistic expectations are important considera…
Strategies for Promoting High-Quality Care and Personal Resilience in Palliative Care
Palliative care (PC) clinicians are faced with ever-expanding pressures, which can make it difficult to fulfill their duties to self and others and lead to moral distress. Understanding the pressures that PC clinicians face and the resources that could be employed to ease their moral distress is crucial to maintaining a healthy PC workforce and to providing necessary PC services to patients. In this paper, we discuss recommendations related to tw…
Ethics and Well-Being
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on health professionals, adding to the moral suffering and burnout that existed prepandemic. The physical, psychological, and moral toll of the pandemic has threatened the well-being and integrity of clinicians. The narrative of self-sacrifice and heroism bolstered people early on but was not sustainable over time. For health professions students, the learning environment changed dramatically, limit…
Medicine (7 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Ethics in medical practice (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Engineering ethics (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Patient Dignity and Privacy (3 works) · Bioethics (2 works)