Call for papers - Nursing workforce shortage

Maha Atout, PhD, MSN, Philadelphia University, Jordan

Dr Maha Atout works as an Associate Professor at the Philadelphia University of Jordan. Her experiences working with children with life-threatening and life-limiting illnesses led to her interest in understanding communication between these children, their parents and health-care professionals. Her PhD work focused on investigating communication in the care of children with palliative care needs from the perspectives of Jordanian mothers, physicians, and nurses, publishing several papers in this field. She is also interested in investigating parental experiences of decision making at the end of life for children with life-threatening and life-limiting conditions. Currently, she is investigating children’s awareness of death, a subject that is largely neglected in the literature. 

Aurelija Blaževičienė, PhD, MPH, RN, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania

Dr Aurelija Blaževičienė is a professor in nursing and currently works at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas. She is an expert and member of various working groups on nursing issues at the Ministry of Health of Republic of Lithuania. She is the international expert in Central Asia countries for Nursing and Midwifery education and clinical practice. She has worked in an academic position for 17 years. Her research is in nursing leadership and wellbeing, advanced nursing practice, and ethical issues in nursing with a focus on finding ways to resolved and improve end of care and support and maintenance  nurses from moral distress.