Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice.
You are writing the rules as this is not a common practice in the USA. There is no customary or typical process or procedure to consider when health professionals venture into new practice territory.
I'm retired now but I think you will find that participation of professionals in the actual patient demise will need to be voluntary and not a job requirement. That would include insertion of tubes or cannulas for delivery of life ending pharmaceuticals. It will be like abortion has been in the acute case setting. Only those professionals who volunteer to provide the care are assigned to the cases.
toomuchbaloney
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You are writing the rules as this is not a common practice in the USA. There is no customary or typical process or procedure to consider when health professionals venture into new practice territory.
I'm retired now but I think you will find that participation of professionals in the actual patient demise will need to be voluntary and not a job requirement. That would include insertion of tubes or cannulas for delivery of life ending pharmaceuticals. It will be like abortion has been in the acute case setting. Only those professionals who volunteer to provide the care are assigned to the cases.