title: "Seeing" artificial hydration and nutrition through an ethical lens.
abstract: Nurses may be asked by conscious, rational patients to participate in the withdrawal of their life-sustaining nutritional support. The case study presented in this column gives clinicians a framework to handle these situations when they arise, using an ethical framework as their guide.
authors.affiliation: University of Connecticut School of Nursing, Storrs, CT, USA. bj24@georgetown.edu
authors.forename: Barbara Bennett
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Jacobs
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D018529:Nutritional Support / Q000941:ethics*; D028761:Withholding Treatment / Q000941:ethics*