Carol Taylor, PhD, RN, is a Professor of Medicine and Nursing and a senior clinical scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. Experienced in caring for patients who are chronically and critically ill and their families, Carol chose doctoral work in philosophy with a concentration in bioethics because of a passion to “make health care work” for those who need it.

At Georgetown Carol directs an innovative ethics curriculum grounded in a rich notion of moral agency for advanced practice student nurses and DNP students. She develops professional seminars in clinical and organisational ethics for health care professionals, health care leaders, and the public. Her research interests include clinical and professional ethics, and organisational integrity. Carol has a PhD in Philosophy with a concentration in bioethics from Georgetown University and a Master's Degree in Medical-Surgical Nursing from Catholic University; She now works closely with health care professionals and leaders who are exploring the ethical dimensions of their practice.

She lectures internationally and writes on various issues in healthcare ethics and serves as an ethics consultant to systems and professional organisations. She is the primary author of Wolter Kluwer's Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Person-Centered Nursing Care, which is now in its 9th edition and co-editor of Health and Human Flourishing: Religion, Medicine and Moral Anthropology and the 4th edition of Case Studies in Nursing Ethics. She has served on the boards of Catholic health care systems, the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, and is a consultant to Hospice of the Valley, one of the largest not-for-profit hospices in the U.S.