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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN

@abmilliken.bsky.social
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Nurse. Ethicist. Educator. Mom. (She/her)

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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If you haven’t already, I encourage you to check out The Society for Nursing Ethics International (SONEI). The SONEI website includes a rich repository of nursing-ethics related resources. My essay on everyday ethics in nursing is on the SONEI blog this week:
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Ethical awareness in everyday nursing practice
Aimee Milliken PhD, RN, HEC-C When you think about ethics, what comes to mind? You may imagine famous cases you learned about in school, like Karen Ann Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, or Terri Schaivo.…
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Check out my latest on Substack, inspired by recent Med Twitter events: aimeemilliken.substack.com/p/conflicts-...
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Conflicts of Interest & Commitment
Distinctions and mitigation
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JAMA @jama.com · 11/01/2026
Among US health care workers, rates of poverty, food insecurity, and housing instability are highest among direct care and support staff, with over 1 in 4 experiencing food insecurity. ja.ma/49OYIlt
A "JAMA" research letter published online October 22, 2025, titled "Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Housing Instability Among US Health Care Workers," discusses shortages of health workers and financial hardships.
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This week, I cover surrogate decision-making and the standards we use in deciding for others. Check it out: aimeemilliken.substack.com/p/surrogate-...
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Surrogate Decision-Making
Deciding for others
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Sara Brinton @sarabrinton.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Trying something new - check out my Substack, Bioethics Basics, where I break down complex concepts in bioethics for the busy point-of-care clinician. Let me know what you think! open.substack.com/pub/aimeemil...
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Bioethics Basics | Aimee Milliken, PhD, RN | Substack
Breaking down key concepts in bioethics for healthcare professionals. Click to read Bioethics Basics, by Aimee Milliken, PhD, RN, a Substack publication. Launched 3 hours ago.
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
It will also likely disincentivize folks from pursuing nursing at the Bachelors degree level - the possibility of career advancement through graduate studies is something that draws many people into nursing in the first place.
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Steve Joffe @stevejoffe.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
1/ Thrilled to announce that @pennmehp.bsky.social is recruiting for our NHGRI-funded postdoctoral fellowship in the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of genomics. Please share widely. Details at medicalethicshealthpolicy.med.upenn.edu/elsipostdoc
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Penn Medical Ethics and Health Policy | ELSI Genomics Postdoctoral Training Program
About the Fellowship The mission of the 3-year Penn Postdoctoral Training Program in the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) of Genetics and Genomics, supported by a training grant from...
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
For years we’ve struggled to increase public conversation about end of life care and advance directives. The Pitt may just be showing us the model for how to do it. Viewers were more likely to seek/share information about organ donation and EOL care. This is accessible ethics education in action!
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'The Pitt' Motivates Viewers to Become Organ Donors and Plan End-of-Life Affairs Study Finds
“'The Pitt’s' success is a powerful reminder that stories can prioritize accuracy," USC Research Director Erica Rosenthal shares.
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Remembering the relief we felt when my then 6 month old was finally old enough to receive his first dose in 2021, and the way we navigated the world with such care before that point.
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Shaker masterfully weaves her own lived experience with a wide range of cutting-edge research to tell a story that is undeniably familiar yet also refreshingly unique. With an evocative title and powerful prose, this book is a must read for anyone who has or knows someone who has dealt with anxiety.
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The Narrowing: A Journey Through Anxiety and the Body
An exploration of the connection between anxiety and the body by a clinical psychologist, drawing from the latest research alongside historical and cultural insights, arguing that only through underst...
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Housing first
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Shaker masterfully weaves her own lived experience with a wide range of cutting-edge research to tell a story that is undeniably familiar yet also refreshingly unique. With an evocative title and powerful prose, this book is a must read for anyone who has or knows someone who has dealt with anxiety.
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The Narrowing: A Journey Through Anxiety and the Body
An exploration of the connection between anxiety and the body by a clinical psychologist, drawing from the latest research alongside historical and cultural insights, arguing that only through underst...
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Ethics of Caring @ethicsofcaring.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Read Dr. Milliken's full speaker spotlight here: ethicsofcaring.org/2025-speaker-spotlights/#AimeeMilliken. #nursing #ethics #nursingethics #clinicalethics #socialworkers #socialwork #casemanagement #hospitalchaplain #chaplain#ethicsofcaring #NNEC2025 #nurseleaders #oncologynurses #palliativecare
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Journal of Pediatric Ethics @jpediatricethics.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Amazing speaker and opportunity for reflection. @abmilliken.bsky.social Will be giving the keynote for day 2 #nursesky #careethics #ethics
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Join us in LA this March!
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Ethics of Caring - National Nursing Ethics Conference on LinkedIn: #nursing #ethics #nursingethics #clinicalethics #socialworkers #socialwork…
“We can’t underestimate the power of storytelling…stories have a way of speaking to the humanity within each of us and can help remind us of the humanity in…
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Gabriela Arguedas @gabyarguedas.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
#Bioethics Hello everyone! I'm looking for papers addressing the ethical duties that emerge when unexpected environmental emergencies happen in a research site, while we are in the middle of a clinical / biomedical research
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Gregg D Caruso @greggdcaruso.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The Waide Center for Applied Ethics now has its own YouTube playlist with videos from its seminar series. Currently there are videos featuring talks by Elizabeth Anderson, Jeffrey Moriarty, and Marion Hourdequin. More on the way. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Waide Center for Applied Ethics - YouTube
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Friends, I am no longer accepting essays for Bioethics Today via email. Please use the website to submit so we can follow protocol and you can answer some basic questions about your submission. bioethicstoday.org/submit-guest...
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Submit a Blog Post - Bioethics Today
Publish a blog post on the Bioethics Today website
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Jeremy Snyder @jsnyder.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The bioethics/applied health ethics/public health ethics starter pack is full (150 people!). Rather than removing less active folks or gatekeeping I'll start another one - so keep letting me know if you're interested in being listed or see anyone who should be added. go.bsky.app/ERXDCeB
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Maxwell Smith, PhD @maxwellsmith.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies Just published, edited by @joelmreynolds.bsky.social and Mercer Gary with many terrific contributors www.routledge.com/Disability-J... Ordered my copy today and looking forward to reading it!
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Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies
Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies is the first book to highlight contributions from critical disability scholarship to the fields of public health ethics and disaster ethics. It takes up...
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Housing is healthcare
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Tim Lahey @timlaheymd.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I created a small but mighty starter pack of clinical ethics people. Happy to add more. Who am I missing? #ClinicalEthics #bioethics #hec-c #MedicalEthics go.bsky.app/DEnw5Qn
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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
#3 is esp important from a distributional perspective, as it comports w/ the notion of a (Rosean) Whole Population Approach. Whole Pop interventions tend more to meet the twin aims of #HealthJustice (improving overall health & compressing health inequalities). Reduce stigma risks, too. #PHEthx
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Such a pleasure speaking at @umassboston.bsky.social last week for Boston Medical Center’s inaugural Nursing Ethics Conference. My talk focused on cultivating moral community as a mechanism for addressing moral distress. Conferences like this are a great example of community building!
Woman in blue and white dress speaking at a podium
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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
In particular, I'd like to highlight this excerpt, as it speaks to a foundational concept in public health ethics: Twin aims models of #Justice. Ethically optimal public health interventions should maximize two goals: improvement of overall pop health, and compression of health inequalities. 1/
According to the latest provisional data from the C.D.C., overdose
deaths fell to 97,000, in the 12 months that ended in June, a
welcome drop below the grim 100,000 threshold that was
surpassed during the pandemic but still staggering.

There were 16,000 fewer drug-related fatalities during that time
period than in the period a year earlier - a projected drop of 14.5
percent. Data suggests that in many states, nonfatal overdose rates
are falling as well.

But the data also shows uneven progress among racial and ethnic
groups and geographic regions. Fatal overdoses among Black
Americans generally increased between 2022 and 2023, while they
largely decreased among white Americans, according to a recent
Georgetown University analysis of state data.
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Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
#PCCMSky Update Up to 95 members Repost so those new to this place can populate their following list with good PCCM people Reply if you are not on this list and should be go.bsky.app/88wg6oG
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WHO @who.int · 18/11/2024
Hello @bsky.app family!
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Kyle Swanson, MD, FAANS, FCNS @kiswanson.medsky.network · 19/11/2024
A very useful article on words/phrases to avoid and alternatives to use with patients
List of phrases and words to avoid And alternatives suggested.
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Huge policy update! Mass. joins the nursing licensure compact. www.mhalink.org/news/massach...
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Massachusetts Hospitals, Nursing Leaders Celebrate Passage of Nurse Licensure Compact - Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association
Massachusetts joins 41 states and jurisdictions in multistate licensure agreement to expand workforce and access to care.
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Travis Gibson @travis.gibsonlab.io · 18/11/2024
Happening in 20 Minutes this talk will cover their EVO model which was published in Science this week and made the cover
Sequence modeling and design from molecular to genome scale with Evo
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Richard Ferro, MD MSc @richferro.com · 17/11/2024
The day has just started and we're likely going to have the highest number of labeled accounts added from @medsky.social today! Tell your #Medsky colleagues to get their labels!
Chart showing growth of users with Medsky labels, with large spike in the last 10 days
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
NurseSky starter pack! Thanks @nursekelsey.bsky.social!
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Kyle Swanson, MD, FAANS, FCNS @kiswanson.medsky.network · 08/11/2024
Looking for medical professionals to follow? #medsky 🩺 Round 1 go.bsky.app/Qg2TA9p Round 2 go.bsky.app/9ziyYqt Round 3 go.bsky.app/9WQtZh6 Feel free to let me know others to add and they will be added to the third (until it maxes out at 150)
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Our recent study about everyday ethics, covered in Med Ethics Advisor. Check it out: www.reliasmedia.com/articles/bio... #medsky
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Bioethicists Identify Essential ‘Everyday Ethics’ Skills for…
In this article we cover Bioethicists Identify Essential ‘Everyday Ethics’ Skills for Clinicians. Stay up to date on the latest in healthcare news and…
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Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Want a quick view of recent works in feminist bioethics? Here is a blog post about the latest issue of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Lots on abortion, assisted reproduction, and microaggressions in medicine, among other timely topics. 🧭 www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/11...
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New Issue of IJFAB: Vol. 17 No. 2 | IJFAB Blog
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Hi!!! I am SO EXCITED to see so many new #medsky and #publichealth folks (& health-interested folks) here. Please introduce yourself to the rest of us. 🛟🩺📊🧪 This is a pretty great community and it is getting more robust by the day.
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Jeremy Snyder @jsnyder.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
If you'd like to be in this starter pack, just let me know. Also, please tell me if I've missed anyone, especially folks from historically underrepresented groups in bioethics and public health ethics.
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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Today the AMA House of delegates passed a resolution that supports state and federal efforts to provide subsidies for undocumented immigrants to purchase health insurance, including by extending eligibility for premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions to purchase ACA plans.
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Fatima Laff MD Msc @denovo-fatima.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
🙌🏽 Hi Aimee. I'm a geneticist and really interested in bioethics of genetic and genomic solutions for patients, particularly peds. I am an IRB member as well, trying my best to make our processes more accessible to research participants. Looking forward to connecting, learning, advocating 🌱
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Jeremy Snyder @jsnyder.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I'm a philosopher working in public health ethics at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Recently, I've written about ethics in health-related philanthropy (e.g., crowdfunding) and exploitation. If you see anyone to add on the bioethics starter pack, let me know!
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Rachel Fabi Ph.D. @fabioethics.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Hi! I’m a public health ethicist who works on immigrant health policy (among other things!). Also a good follow if you like crossword puzzles 🤓
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Jeremy Snyder @jsnyder.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
I just set up a starter pack for bioethics/applied health ethics/public health ethics. I'm sure I've missed a ton of people, so let me know if you'd like to be included. go.bsky.app/HQVYom8
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Bioethics roll call! Introduce yourself here and I’ll create a starter pack ⬇️ #medsky
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 11/11/2024
THE tweetorial guru has arrived 👇🏽
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Christian Sinclair @ctsinclair.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Sharing my updated #Hospice and #PalliativeCare list. If you are not on there please let me know. #hapc #palliative #medsky I also have a starter pack and How to Bluesky pinned in my profile. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Guess it’s time to repost this! Hi, Bluesky!
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
“Private equity acquisition of hospitals, on average, was associated with increased hospital-acquired adverse events despite a likely lower-risk pool of admitted Medicare beneficiaries, suggesting poorer quality of inpatient care.” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Hospital Adverse Events and Patient Outcomes Associated With Private Equity Acquisition
This observation study examines changes in hospital-acquired adverse events (or conditions) and hospitalization outcomes associated with private equity acquisit
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
A real pleasure presenting the keynote address last weekend at the RI & SE Mass. chapter of the Oncology Nursing Society. Wonderful opportunity to discuss moral distress and burnout. I especially appreciated the festive setup!
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
New paper alert! Pam Grace and I explore distinctions in titles: nurse ethicist versus nurse & ethicist. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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A semantic exploration: Nurse ethicist, medical ethicist, or clinical ethicist: Do distinctions matt...
Since the 1960s, it has been recognized that “medical ethics,” the area of inquiry about the obligations of practitioners of medicine, is inadequate for capturi...
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