title: Persistent vegetative state: ethical issues for nursing.
abstract: This paper is an attempt to set out some of the issues which the RCN Council Nursing and Ethics Sub-committee has discussed recently with regard to nursing involvement in the care of patients who have been classified as being in a vegetative state, particularly in the event that the withdrawal of treatment is under consideration. It aims to encourage nurses to debate this issue openly and contribute their views.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wainwright
mesh_terms: D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D008008:Licensure, Nursing; D018458:Persistent Vegetative State / Q000451:nursing*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012297:Right to Die; D006113:United Kingdom