Helen S . Chapple, PhD, RN, MSN
Professor
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School of Medicine
Bioethics (Graduate Certificate)
Clinical Ethics Consultation (Graduate Certificate)
Public Health MPH (Master's)
Bioethics (Master of Science)
Medical Humanities
Helen S . Chapple, PhD, RN, MSN
Professor
Helen S. Chapple, a professor at Creighton University, teaches online in the Masters in Bioethics Program. Her 20 years as a bedside nurse included oncology, hospice, research, and ICU nursing. Current research interests include dying persons as an unrepresented population; US racial history and the pandemic; and relating solidarity and autonomy. She authored “No Place for Dying: Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue,” published by Routledge, and co-edited the 3rd edition of “The Handbook of Thanatology.”
Dr. Chapple’s terminal degree is a PhD in Medical Anthropology from UVa. She has been writing and teaching in the areas of ethics and thanatology for 30 years, focusing on the phenomenon of dying in the culture of US health care and its demographics, and she has published articles, books, and book chapters along the way. A current interest is the correlation between terror management theory and group status threat among white persons in the US and its explanatory potential.
Teaching Interests
- Medical Anthropology
Research Focus
End of life care; health facility policies; white superiority and vaccine hesitancy; terror management theory; state regulation of post mortem care.Department
Medical Humanities
Position
Professor
Books
- Servaty-Seib Heather L, Handbook of thanatology 2021
- Chapple Helen Stanton, Speaking for the Dying: Life-and-Death Decisions in Intensive Care 2020
- A Companion to the Anthropology of Death
Chapple Helen Stanton, The Disappearance of Dying, and Why It Matters [Book Chapter] 2018 - Chapple Helen S., Rescue and Transplantation as US Social Goals: Salvation without Transcendence? [Book Chapter] 2013
- Chapple Helen S., No Place for Dying: Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue 2010
- No Place For Dying
Chapple Helen Stanton, Hospital Dying Situations [Book Chapter] 2010 - No Place For Dying
Chapple Helen Stanton, Introduction [Book Chapter] 2010 - No Place for Dying
Chapple Helen Stanton, Intro [Book Chapter] 2010 - No Place For Dying
Chapple Helen Stanton, Death with as Little Dying as Possible [Book Chapter] 2010 - No Place For Dying
Chapple Helen Stanton, “Every Medical Action Is a Transaction”: Rescue as Industry [Book Chapter] 2010 - Chapple Helen Stanton, No Place For Dying 2010
- No Place For Dying
Chapple Helen Stanton, Ritual Display, Palliative Care, and Trust [Book Chapter] 2010 - No Place For Dying
Chapple Helen Stanton, Making a Place for Dying in the Hospital [Book Chapter] 2010 - Chapple Helen S., Hospice as a cultural good [Book Chapter] 2009
Publications
- AMA journal of ethics
Stanton Chapple Helen, Solidarity in Mortal Time
24:12, p. E1149 - 1154 2022 - Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice
Kirkpatrick Amanda J., Building interprofessional team competence through online synchronous simulation of palliative care scenarios
27 2022 - Journal of infusion nursing
Chapple Helen Stanton, Placing a Central Vascular Access Device in a Patient With Substance Use Disorder The Ethical Position of the Infusion Nurse
44:1, p. 21 - 25 2021 - AMA journal of ethics
Chapple Helen Stanton, Five Things Students and Clinicians Should Know About 'Biocontainment'
22:1, p. E22 - E27 2020 - AMA journal of ethics
Chapple Helen Stanton, Clinical Momentum as One Reason Dying Patients Are Underserved in Acute Care Settings
20:8, p. E732 - 737 2018 - Journal of Nursing Education
Minnich Margo, Writing across the curriculum
57:6, p. 366 - 370 2018 - AMA journal of ethics
Chapple Helen Stanton, Strategies for Building Trust with the Caregiver of a Patient with End-Stage Dementia
19:7, p. 656 - 662 2017 - Death Studies
Chapple Helen S., The Body of Knowledge in Thanatology: An Outline
41:2, p. 118 - 125 2017 - Perspectives in biology and medicine
Chapple Helen, BIOCONTAINING purification, restoration, and meaning-making
60:2, p. 166 - 185 2017 - International journal of teaching and learning in higher education
Rentmeester Christy A, Teaching and Learning Health Justice: Best Practices and Recommendations for Innovation
28:3, p. 440 2016 - Society
Chapple Helen S., Rescue: Faith in the Unlimited Future
52:5, p. 424 - 429 2015 - The Hastings Center report
Chapple Helen Stanton, Commentary
40:5, p. 13 - 13 2010 - Anthropology and humanism
Chapple Helen S., Could She Be Dying? Dis‐Orders of Reality around Death in an American Hospital
27:2, p. 165 - 184 2002 - Critical care nurse
Chapple Helen, Changing the game in the intensive care unit: Letting nature take its course
19:3, p. 25 - 34 1999 - Finnerty J. J, Cerebral arteriovenous malformation in pregnancy : Presentation and neurologic, obstetric, and ethical significance. Discussion 1999
- Pinkerton J. V, Parental rights at the birth of a near-viable infant: Conflicting perspectives. Commentary 1997
Presentations
- Eviscerating Public Health Norms: Group Status Threat and Social Media Disruptors with Heather Servaty-Seib 2022
- Invited guest lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis, Hospital Ethnography class, David Ansari, IOR 2021
- Standing Up in Solidarity to the Terror of Death, 12th Biennial Baylor Scott & White Bereavement Conference, Dallas, TX, October 1 (live but virtual). 2021
- When Two Profiles Converged and Exploded: Covid in the US 2020 to incoming freshmen at Creighton For and With Others: Day of Service, Welcome Week 2021
- The Handbook of Thanatology, 3rd Edition: An Update for the Association for Death Education and Counseling 42nd Annual Conference, Columbus OH, virtual, with Heather Servaty-Seib. 2021
- When Two Low Profiles Converged and Exploded: Covid in the US 2020 for Medicine Grand Rounds, Creighton University 2020
- Pain Scales Revisited for the 18th Annual Pain Management Conference, Creighton University and CHI Health 2020
- Dying and the Critical Present as part of invited panel presentation: Carol Carfang Nursing and Healthcare Ethics Conference, Duquesne University, Clearwater, FL, 2020
- Infusion and the ANA Code of Ethics, Infusion Nursing Society National Academy, San Diego 2019
- Death Denial as a Refusal of Meaning: Shifting the Burden to Nurses for the Association for Death Education and Counseling 41st Annual Conference, Atlanta. 2019
- Conversations About God Forbid, for the Nebraska LEAD Program Social Issues Seminar, Omaha 2019