Kate Payne

For the American zoologist of similar name, see Katy Payne.
Kate Payne
A white woman with short dark hair and glasses
Kate Payne, from a 2009 newspaper photo
Born1957
Denver, Colorado
DiedJanuary 6, 2021
Nashville, Tennessee
Occupation(s)Nurse, lawyer, bioethicist

Kate Payne (1957 – January 6, 2021) was an American nurse, lawyer, and bioethicist. She was an associate professor at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Early life

Payne was born in Denver, Colorado, the daughter of Charles (Chuck) Payne and Doris Payne.[1] She earned a bachelor's degree in biology at Colorado State University in 1979, and a second bachelor's in nursing from Rush University in 1981. She completed a Juris Doctor degree at Pepperdine University School of Law in 1989. She pursued further studies in medical ethics as a fellow at the Pritzker School of Medicine in Chicago in 1993 and 1994.[2]

Career

Payne was Director of Ethics and Palliative Care at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, and a clinical bioethicist and associate professor at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University. She also held adjunct affiliation at the Center for Biomedical Ethics, Education & Research at Albany Medical College. Payne wrote and taught on healthcare law,[3] end-of-life issues,[4][5] and careworker burnout.[6] She served on the national advisory board of Americans for Better Care of the Dying (ABCD), and was active in Tennessee End of Life Partnership and the ethics committee of the Alive Hospice.[4] She helped to shape the Tennessee Health Care Decisions Act of 2004, and advised the state of Tennessee on pandemic planning and disaster relief.[7] The Tennessean named her Nurse of the Year in 2009.[1][2] "Nursing is all about education, advocacy, and human dignity," she explained of her work in 2009. "I am always thinking, 'If I were a patient, what would I want?'"[8]

Publications

Payne's work was published in academic journals including Chest,[9] Critical Care Medicine,[10] Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners,[11] Women and Birth,[12] Journal of Graduate Medical Education,[13] Perspectives on Medical Education,[14] Tennessee Nurse,[15] Pediatrics,[16] AACN Advanced Critical Care,[17] and The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.[18] Some of her publications are listed below to suggest the breadth of her interests and contributions, including some of her professional journal columns in 2020 about the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • "Quality of Dying and Death in Two Medical ICUs: Perceptions of Family and Clinicians" (2005, with Levy, Wesley Ely, Engelberg, Patrick, and Curtis)[9]
  • "Ethical Issues Related to Pandemic Flu Planning and Response" (2007)[17]
  • "Justifiable deception in everyday practice" (2010, with Wolf and Johnson)[18]
  • "Science, healing, and courage: the legacy of Florence Nightingale" (2010)[19]
  • "Ethics Empowerment: Deal with Moral Distress" (2011)[15]
  • "Facilitators of prenatal care in an exemplar urban clinic" (2016, with Phillippi, Holley, Schorn, and Karp)[12]
  • "When Only Family Is Available to Interpret" (2019, with Turnbull, Arenth, Lantos, and Fanning)[16]
  • "After the Pandemic: What Do We Know?" (2020)[20]
  • "Pandemic: Continued Ethical Obligations" (2020)[21]
  • "The Parallel Pandemic: Self Care is No Longer Optional" (2020)[22]
  • "Interdisciplinary Ethics Certificate Program for Graduate Medical Education Trainees" (2021, with Thomas, Meador, and Drolet)[13]

Personal life

Payne married Scott Weiss. She died at Alive Hospice from cancer in 2021, aged 63.[23][24] Kate Payne Clinical Medical Ethics Legacy Fund was established in her memory at Vanderbilt University.[25]

References

  1. ^ a b "Kate Payne, Vanderbilt nurse and bioethicist, has died". Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. January 14, 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
  2. ^ a b "Kate Payne, JD, RN, NC-BC". Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
  3. ^ Payne, Kate (2005-12-30). "TennCare, too, is about ethics betrayed". The Tennessean. pp. A15. Retrieved 2021-12-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ a b "End of Life Issues - Kate Payne". HealthBond. 2004-10-07. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
  5. ^ "NorthCrest hosts end of life medical issue seminar". Robertson County Times. 2009-08-19. pp. B7. Retrieved 2021-12-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "'Formerly Burned Out' Study Respondents Offer Valuable Insights". Relias Media. February 1, 2020. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
  7. ^ "Kate Payne". Tennessee State Government. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
  8. ^ Baker, Liz (2009-05-10). "Nurse of the Year Award: Ethics director fights for patients". The Tennessean. pp. Q3. Retrieved 2021-12-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ a b Levy, Cari R.; Wesley, Ely; Payne, Kate; Engelberg, Ruth A.; Patrick, Donald L.; Curtis, J. Randall (2005-05-01). "Quality of Dying and Death in Two Medical ICUs: Perceptions of Family and Clinicians". Chest. 127 (5): 1775–1783. doi:10.1378/chest.127.5.1775. ISSN 0012-3692. PMID 15888858.
  10. ^ Goligher, Ewan C.; Ely, E. Wesley; Sulmasy, Daniel P.; Bakker, Jan; Raphael, John; Volandes, Angelo E.; Patel, Bhavesh M.; Payne, Kate; Hosie, Annmarie; Churchill, Larry; White, Douglas B. (February 2017). "Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the ICU: A Dialogue on Core Ethical Issues*". Critical Care Medicine. 45 (2): 149–155. doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000001818. ISSN 0090-3493. PMC 5245170. PMID 28098622.
  11. ^ Kapu, April N.; Borg Card, Elizabeth; Jackson, Heather; Kleinpell, Ruth; Kendall, Jim; Lupear, Buffy Krauser; LeBar, Kiersten; Dietrich, Mary S.; Araya, Wendy A.; Delle, Janelle; Payne, Kate (January 2021). "Assessing and addressing practitioner burnout: Results from an advanced practice registered nurse health and well-being study". Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. 33 (1): 38–48. doi:10.1097/JXX.0000000000000324. ISSN 2327-6924. PMID 31702604. S2CID 207965502.
  12. ^ a b Phillippi, Julia C.; Holley, Sharon L.; Payne, Kate; Schorn, Mavis N.; Karp, Sharon M. (2016-04-01). "Facilitators of prenatal care in an exemplar urban clinic". Women and Birth. 29 (2): 160–167. doi:10.1016/j.wombi.2015.09.007. ISSN 1871-5192. PMID 26530714.
  13. ^ a b Thomas, Harrison C.; Meador, Keith; Payne, Kate; Drolet, Brian C. (2021-12-14). "Interdisciplinary Ethics Certificate Program for Graduate Medical Education Trainees". Journal of Graduate Medical Education. 13 (6): 863–867. doi:10.4300/JGME-D-21-00474.1. ISSN 1949-8349. PMC 8672838. PMID 35070100. S2CID 245150114.
  14. ^ Kuhn, Andrew W.; Hanna, Eriny S.; Menon, Varun K.; Jarrett, Ryan T.; Adebesin, Mobolanle; Antoun, Jackie; Bland, Joshua; DePew, Rebekka; Hufnagel, Demetra; Kanu, Elishama; Kaur, Karampreet (2021-01-29). "The development of a current events and dialogue forum at a large U.S. academic medical center". Perspectives on Medical Education. 11 (6): 371–375. doi:10.1007/s40037-021-00651-2. ISSN 2212-277X. PMC 9743831. PMID 33512696. S2CID 231766957.
  15. ^ a b Payne, Kate (2011-03-22). "Ethics empowerment: deal with moral distress". Tennessee Nurse. 74 (1): 1, 4. PMID 21495603.
  16. ^ a b Turnbull, Jessica; Arenth, Joshua; Payne, Kate; Lantos, John D.; Fanning, Joseph (2019-04-01). "When Only Family Is Available to Interpret". Pediatrics. 143 (4): e20183700. doi:10.1542/peds.2018-3700. ISSN 0031-4005. PMID 30850394. S2CID 73508139.
  17. ^ a b Payne, Kate (2007-10-01). "Ethical Issues Related to Pandemic Flu Planning and Response". AACN Advanced Critical Care. 18 (4): 356–360. doi:10.4037/15597768-2007-4004. ISSN 1559-7768. PMID 17978609.
  18. ^ a b Wolf, Bruce L.; Johnson, Ashley; Payne, Kate (2010-04-01). "Justifiable deception in everyday practice". Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 125 (4): 939–941. doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2009.12.988. ISSN 0091-6749. PMID 20226504.
  19. ^ Payne, Kate (2010-06-22). "Science, healing, and courage: the legacy of Florence Nightingale". Tennessee Nurse. 73 (2): 8–9. PMID 20608368.
  20. ^ Payne, Kate (2020-06-22). "After the Pandemic: What do we know?". Tennessee Nurse. 83 (2): 16–17.
  21. ^ Payne, Kate (2020-09-22). "Nursing Ethics: Pandemic: Continued Ethical Obligations". Tennessee Nurse. 83 (3): 20–21.
  22. ^ Payne, Kate (2020-12-22). "The Parallel Pandemic: Self Care is No Longer Optional". Tennessee Nurse. 83 (4): 12–13.
  23. ^ "Obituary for Kate Payne (Aged 63)". The Tennessean. 2021-01-17. pp. A21. Retrieved 2021-12-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. ^ "In Memoriam: Kate Payne, 1957-2021". Women In Academia Report. 2021-01-29. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
  25. ^ "Kate Payne Clinical Medical Ethics Legacy Fund". Vanderbilt Health. Retrieved 2021-12-21.