Nursing Ethics Student Essay Prize
The Editorial Board of the journal Nursing Ethics is pleased to announce the award of a prize for the best student essay (maximum length 2500 words) on a topic related to nursing and healthcare ethics.
The competition is open to all students in nursing and other healthcare professions on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes during the period January to September 2010. The essay may have been submitted as an assignment but should not have been published previously. It can relate to an empirical ethics project or it can be a discussion/conceptual essay exploring a philosophical topic. The essay should make a significant and original contribution to nursing or healthcare ethics.
The closing date for entries is 30th May 2010. The prize will be awarded at the next ICNE conference in Turku in September 2010. The author of the prize-winning essay will receive one year’s free subscription to the journal and £100. The prize-winning essay will be published in the journal. The Editorial Board reserves the right to make more than one award.
We, therefore, invite students to submit essays on a nursing or healthcare ethics topic to the journal by email (nursing-ethics@surrey.ac.uk) by 30th May 2010. Please clearly mark your submission by inserting the email subject as ‘student essay prize’. The essay should be in the correct format for the journal. For information regarding referencing and other author guidelines please go to the Sage website
ICNE One Day Conference at ICN in Durban
The next ICNE conference will be a one-day meeting, as a pre-conference at the ICN in Durban, South Africa. More details on the Events page.
ICNE 10th Anniversary Conference in Surrey in September
The ICNE 10th Anniversary Conference, "Nursing Ethics: Looking Back, Moving Forward", will be held on the 10th and 11th September 2009 at ICNE, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. More details on the Events page.
24th May 2009 Do people in a minimally conscious state have dignity?
Jukka Varelius, of the Philosophy Department at Turku University, writing in the journal Neuroethics, questions
whether we are justified in holding that persons in minimally conscious state possess human dignity.
Neuroethics
24th May 2009 Assisted suicide in Washington State
Washington recently became the latest State in the USA to legalise assisted suicide. The first person to die by this means was 66 year old Linda Fleming. New York Times
Yale Conference Report
The 2008 ICNE Nursing Ethics conference, NURSING ETHICS AND HEALTH CARE POLICY:
BRIDGING LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES, was organised by Doug Olson and held at
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA from 17-19 July 2008. A full report of the conference by Chris Gastmans,
of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law at the Catholic University Leuven, Belgium can be found 
here
News archive
This page is used to store older ICNE news items, press releases and other archived documents.
Press releases
Human Rights and Nursing
Awards 2007
The International Centre for Nursing Ethics (ICNE) based at the University of Surrey is pleased to announce the winners of the Human Rights and Nursing Awards 2007. The awards will be presented to Nurith Wagner (Israel) and Claire Bertschinger (U.K.) on 19 June in Surrey as part of the International Centre for Nursing Ethics conference.
International Nurses Express
Global Concerns
Public statement from international nurses at the conference on ‘The Globalisation of Nursing’ organised by the International Centre for Nursing Ethics, University of Surrey, UK, taking place at the university on 9-11 July 2006.
Gaza nurses' response to receiving the Human Rights and Nursing Award
In 2006 the Award went to five nurses working in Gaza. Due to the conflict they were not able to attend the ceremony at Surrey University personally, but the Awards were recieved on their behalf by Mrs J. Jaidy, the Matron of the St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem and have since been handed to the recipient nurses.
The Gaza nurses' have produced a written response to receiving the Human Rights and Nursing Award: