Starving for Health Care: Ethical Issues Surrounding the Uninsured Population

Debra Shipman, MSN, MBA, RN, Tammy Vant Hul, MSN, ACNP, RN, and Jack Hooten, MSN, MHA, RN

Ms. Shipman works in the Office of Employee Education at the Salem VA Medical Center (SVAMC), Salem, VA. Ms. Vant Hul is an associate professor of nursing and the assistant department chair of the ADN program at Riverside City College, Riverside, CA. Additionally, Ms. Shipman and Ms. Vant Hul are both PhD nursing education students at Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Mr. Hooten is a staff nurse on a mental health geriatric nursing unit at the SVAMC and an adjunct faculty member at Jefferson College of Health Sciences, Roanoke, VA.