Pamela Grace is an experienced nurse, nurse educator and ethics scholar. She completed a PhD in Philosophy with a concentration in medical ethics (1998). Over the past 25 years she has written and presented extensively on the topics of nursing philosophy, and nursing and healthcare ethics. Her book on ethics in advanced practice nursing received the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and Alpha Sigma Nu Honor Society national book award in the category of Health Sciences. As an Emerita faculty member of Boston College Connell School of Nursing, Massachusetts, USA, she continues to teach ethics courses on a part time basis and is involved in national and international projects to develop the ethics expertise of those responsible for educating nurses.
Aimee Milliken, PhD, RN is a Clinical Associate Professor at the William F. Connell School of Nursing at Boston College. She is formerly the Executive Director of the Ethics Service at a large academic medical center in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She practiced as a critical care nurse for over a decade. She received her PhD from Boston College and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical ethics. She has published and presented nationally and internationally on the topics of nursing ethics and clinical ethics.