American Nurses Association. position statement on assisted suicide.
Nurses, individually and collectively, have an obligation to provide comprehensive and compassionate end-of-life care which includes the promotion of comfort and the relief of pain and, at times, forgoing life-sustaining treatments. The American Nurses Association (ANA) believes that the nurse should not participate in assisted suicide. Such an act is in violation of the Code for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (Code for Nurses) and the ethical traditions of the profession.
D000575:American Nurses' Association; D026686:Beneficence; D032781:Codes of Ethics; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D017236:Suicide, Assisted; D014481:United States; D026712:Value of Life; D028761:Withholding Treatment