End-of-Life Challenges: Honoring Autonomy

Patientsʼ end-of-life decisions challenge nurses to improve palliative care, symptom management, and patient advocacy, and examine ethical issues. When terminally ill patients take charge of the last stages of life, they may challenge nurses to reexamine attitudes about lifesaving technology and aut...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Cancer nursing 2004-07, Vol.27 (4), p.314-319
1. Verfasser:	Valente, Sharon M
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Advance Directives - ethics Advance Directives - psychology Aged Cancer Communication Decision Making - ethics Family - psychology Female Fluid Therapy - ethics Fluid Therapy - psychology Health care Humans Internal-External Control Medical Futility - ethics Medical Futility - psychology Mental Competency - psychology Mental Health Nurse's Role - psychology Nursing Nursing Assessment - ethics Nursing Assessment - methods Patient Advocacy - ethics Patient Advocacy - psychology Patient Education as Topic - ethics Patient Education as Topic - methods Patient Participation - methods Patient Participation - psychology Patients Personal Autonomy Right to Die - ethics Social Support Suicide, Assisted - ethics Suicide, Assisted - psychology Terminal Care - ethics Terminal Care - methods Terminal Care - psychology Terminal illnesses Withholding Treatment - ethics
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