Janie B. Butts is a retired Professor at The University of Southern Mississippi College of Nursing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where she taught classroom and online nursing courses at the doctoral, master's, and baccalaureate levels. Courses included ethics, legal issues, advanced theory, advanced practice issues, professional development, research, and professional nursing practice. Dr. Butts served in the capacity of Consultant Editor from 2008 to 2014 for Nursing Ethics journal, which is an international journal. Current specific research interests include death and dying ethical issues. Dr. Butts has two books published with Dr.

Rich: one is Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Practice (4th edition) and the other one is Philosophies and Theories for Advanced Nursing Practice (2nd edition). Dr. Butts' journal articles and book chapters include topics on ethics, her research, theory, education, and professional issues. She reviews for nursing journals. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Alabama at Birmingham with an emphasis in nursing education and nursing science, and her master's degree is from the University of Mississippi at the Medical Center, Jackson, with an emphasis in adult health nursing and nursing management.