Exploring the nursing implications of physician-assisted suicide in the UK.
The issue of physician-assisted suicide causes strong feeling on both sides of the debate. It is unlikely to be legalised in the UK in the near future, but debates around assisted death--whether with or without physician involvement--occur regularly. This article explores some of the practical, legal, ethical and educational implications for nurses if physician-assisted suicide were to be legalised in the UK.
Trowell
Frances
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Harris HospisCare, St Christopher's Hospice, Orpington, Kent.
D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care; D010166:Palliative Care; D017236:Suicide, Assisted / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006113:United Kingdom