Nursing Insights and Practices That All Providers Should Know

), nurses present state-of-the-art ethical insights and practices that they have developed over time. Nurses generally use a "different lens" than traditional principle- and theory-based bioethics. They rely more on a "relational ethic of care." They emphasize and prioritize patients' and family members' feelings and relationships with them. This is especially important because to any degree that patients or family members remain fearful, this fear may interfere with their understanding and then following through with what their providers recommend to them. They also put forth that providers should consider prioritizing all patients' long-term interests when they have short-term interests that conflict. Other providers should be aware of these approaches, as they may significantly benefit patients. Nurses' skills and exceptional techniques are particularly valuable to other providers because there has been and remains at this time a gap between nurses' and other providers' awareness of these insights. Nurses' scholarly work has generally been "siloed," since nurses have tended to submit their scholarly findings to journals and conferences directed mostly to other nurses. This introductory piece is intended to close this gap by bridging this scholarly divide. We can now do all we can to remedy this siloing and undo all invidious attributions of secondary status that may underlie this. Conceptual underpinnings, practical applications, and emerging ethical considerations will be presented.