"Seeing" artificial hydration and nutrition through an ethical lens.
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.
Jacobs
Barbara Bennett
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University of Connecticut School of Nursing, Storrs, CT, USA. bj24@georgetown.edu
Taylor
Carol
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D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D018529:Nutritional Support / Q000941:ethics*; D028761:Withholding Treatment / Q000941:ethics*