Golden Receives Bioethics Award
Neuroscience ICU Nurse Manager Shaun Golden, MSN, RN, CNRN, received the 2008 BWH Ethics Award, presented annually to two staff members to attend an internationally renowned course at Georgetown University. Pejman Aflaki, MD, of BWH Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, also received the award.
“Every day in the Neuroscience ICU, ethics discussions come into play as we face issues with patients and families around death and dying and organ donation,” said Golden, who applied for the award as a way to help further the culture of ethics at BWH and to continue to advance the unit’s weekly interdisciplinary ethics rounds.
The Intensive Bioethics Course, offered by the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown, is a week-long study and discussion of the most challenging topics in health care ethics with some of the country’s best teachers.
“This is probably the top ethics course in the world with large lectures and small groups for rich discussion and case studies,” Golden said.
As a recipient of the award, Golden has committed to serve a three-year term on the hospital’s Ethics Committee.