Wendy McHugh, RN
Wendy McHugh is the Clinical Nurse Ethicist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. In this role she provides individual ethics consultations to patients and staff members, facilitates monthly Ethics Rounds on 18 units; she co-coordinates a monthly Ethics Case Conference and the Ethics Liaison Group and serves as a member of the Ethics Advisory Council. Wendy is also a member of the Harvard Ethics Leadership Group.
Wendy was an intensive care unit nurse for 22 years. In 2000, she attended the Intensive Bioethics course at the Kennedy Institute at Georgetown University as a BIDMC Kraft Scholar. She completed the fellowship in medical ethics at Harvard Medical School in 2004. Wendy earned both her BS in Nursing and her Masters in Nursing Administration at Northeastern University. In addition to her focus on ethics and healthcare quality in the critical care setting, she is interested in ethics at the end of life.
