American Nurses Association position statement on promotion of comfort and relief of pain in dying patients.
Nurses should not hesitate to use full and effective doses of pain medication for the proper management of pain in the dying patient. The increasing titration of medication to achieve adequate symptom control, even at the expense of life, thus hastening death secondarily, is ethically justified.
Hockenberg
S J
SJ
D000575:American Nurses' Association; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000451:nursing*; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States