{"id":11913,"date":"2007-10-24T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=11913"},"modified":"2023-01-23T14:20:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T22:20:12","slug":"nurses-involvement-in-the-care-of-patients-requesting-euthanasia-a-review-of-the-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=11913","title":{"rendered":"Nurses&#8217; involvement in the care of patients requesting euthanasia: a review of the literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nele Del Bal, Chris Gastmans, Bernadette Dierckx de Casterl\u00e9<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"161\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/intjnursingstudies.jpg\" alt=\"Nurses&#039; involvement in the care of patients requesting euthanasia: a review of the literature\" class=\"wp-image-12623\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">International Journal of Nursing Studies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br><strong>OBJECTIVES:<\/strong> The aim of this paper is to thoroughly examine the involvement and experiences of nurses in the care of mentally competent, adult patients requesting euthanasia (i.e. administration of lethal drugs by someone other than the person concerned with the explicit intention of ending a patient&#8217;s life, at the latter&#8217;s explicit request) by means of a literature review. . .<br> <strong>CONCLUSIONS:<\/strong> Nurses can make a significant contribution to the quality of care by assisting and counseling patients and their families, physicians, and their nursing colleagues in a professional manner, even in countries where euthanasia is not legal. However, research on nurses&#8217; involvement in euthanasia has methodological and terminological problems,leading to our recommendation for more carefully designed qualitative studies that explore in-depth the experiences of nurses in caring for patients requesting euthanasia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Bal ND, Gastmans C, de Casterl\u00e9 BD. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0020748907001563?via%3Dihub\">Nurses&#8217; involvement in the care of patients requesting euthanasia: a review of the literature.<\/a> Int J Nurs Studies. 2008;45(4):626-644. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nele Del Bal, Chris Gastmans, Bernadette Dierckx de Casterl\u00e9 AbstractOBJECTIVES: The aim of this paper is to thoroughly examine the involvement and experiences of nurses in the care of mentally competent, adult patients requesting euthanasia (i.e. administration of lethal drugs by someone other than the person concerned with the explicit intention of ending a patient&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=11913\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nurses&#8217; involvement in the care of patients requesting euthanasia: a review of the literature&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2,964],"tags":[1035,1033,1034],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-11913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-euthanasia","category-journal-article","category-nursing","tag-bernadette-dierckx-de-casterle","tag-chris-gastmans","tag-nele-del-bal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Nurses&#039; involvement in the care of patients requesting euthanasia: a review of the literature - Protection of Conscience Project Library<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Research on nurses&#039; involvement in euthanasia has methodological\/terminological problems. 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