As a pediatric nurse and PNP for many years, I have experience in pediatric critical care, pediatric emergency, neurosurgery, and palliative care. After earning a master's in clinical ethics I joined the Ethics Consult Team and Hospital Ethics Committee in 2013. Due to an interest in the moral distress of nurses and other health care workers, I focused my doctoral work on developing nursing ethics huddles, a forum for nurses to discuss and work through challenging cases in their work site. Currently I hold position at the School of Nursing where I teach Ethics and Public Policy, Division of Humanities and Bioethics where I lead medical student seminars on ethics.
Current Focus
"Currently I am the ombudsperson for the School of Nursing. I also continue to lead small groups in the hospital to address ethical concerns, and am active as a member of the ethics consult service throughout URMC. "
Chiafery, M (2020). Ethicists offer much needed support to clinicians with moral distress.Medical ethics Advisor, 36 (6), 61-72.
Wax, J, D'Angio, C & Chiafery, M. (2019). Ethical considerations in the neonatal period.Peirnatal Palliative Care: A clinical Guide (book chapter).
Chiafery, M. C., Hopkins, P., Norton, S. A., & Shaw, M. H. (2018). Nursing ethics huddles to decrease moral distress among nurses in the intensive care unit.The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 29 (3), 217-226. PMID: 30226823
Chiafery, M (2006). Care and Management of the child with hydrocephalus.Pediatric Nursing, 32 (3), 222-225.
Chiafery, M (1998). Pediatric Neurologic Emergencies.Pediatric Emergency Nursing.
Powers, K Goldstein,B, Merriam, C, Chiafery M Tornabene L Paprocki S (1994). A Multidisciplinary approach to the families of brain dead children.Clinical Intensive Care, 5, 191-196.
Chiafery, M, Stephany, R and Holiday K (1993). Epidural sympathetic blockade to relieve vascular insufficiency in a child with purpura fulminans.Critical Care Nurse, 13 (3), 71- 76.
