title: AIDS, nursing, and physician-assisted suicide: Part 2.
abstract: Nurses who work in HIV/AIDS care often hold conflicting views from each other about appropriate nursing roles in relation to physician-assisted suicide. Regardless of whether the individual nurse supports or opposes physician-assisted suicide, nurses in HIV/AIDS care need to have a broad knowledge base of the legal and ethical issues related to physician-assisted suicide. This article has as its major purpose to provide nurses with the knowledge base they need to assist them in their work in clinical practice, education, policy development, and research.
authors.affiliation: PacifiCare Behavioral Health, Inc., Van Nuys, California, USA.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Saunders
mesh_terms: D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D010166:Palliative Care; D017236:Suicide, Assisted