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Outcomes: 1. Utilizing a case-based approach, participants will self-report the concerns that lead hospice programs to ask nurses to leave the room when a patient ingests the prescribed life-ending medications 2. Utilizing the ANA Code of Ethics, participants will self-report the ethical dilemma that occurs when the nurse is required to leave the room when the patient ingests the medications Some hospices in US jurisdictions where Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) is legal have implemented policies that require nurses to “leave the room” when a patient ingests aid-in-dying medication. Two questions with ethical implications arise from these policies: (1) Is it ethically supportable for a hospice to require staff leave the room while a patient ingests aid-in-dying medication? (2) Does this requirement compromise the nurse's professional commitment to patient and family? We review the origins of this common policy, nursing codes of ethics and professional organization policy statements related to nursing commitments to patients. In the United States, physicians and nurses cannot administer aid-in-dying medication directly; the patient must self-administer. But the scope of hospice engageme

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Author

Constance Holden; Jean Abbott; Jeanne Kerwin

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)