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Advanced Practice Nurses: What role do they play in Switzerland?
The SAMS Bulletin 3/2025 focuses on the nursing professions and highlights the roles of advanced practice nurses (APNs), which remain relatively underdeveloped in Switzerland. A report commissioned by the SAMS aims to promote an informed debate on this complex issue. In this Bulletin, the author Urs Brügger summarizes the most important findings and two members of the SAMS Executive Board contribute their perspectives from the fields of medicine and nursing sciences.
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Organ donation after assisted suicide: Legal opinion for informed debate
Can organ donation take place in a Swiss hospital following assisted suicide? Both practices are legally permitted, widely accepted in society, and are already carried out in Switzerland. However, their combination raises new ethical and legal questions. In 2025, the Central Ethics Committee (CEC) of the SAMS published a position statement on the ethical aspects of this issue. Today, the SAMS is publishing a commissioned legal opinion on the subject. Both documents are available on our website.
Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences SAMS
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Animal experimentation: ECAE Statement on 3R research
The Ethics Committee for Animal Experimentation (ECAE) has issued a statement on parliamentary initiative 21.426 by Katja Christ, «More resources and incentives for 3R research to accelerate the development of alternatives to animal testing».