Should Nurses help Doctors in Physician assisted suicide (euthanasia)

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  1. Do you Believe that Nurses should help with Euthanasia

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      Yes, I believe it is right to be apart of Physician assisted suicide
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      No, I believe its wrong to be apart of Physician assisted suicide.

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I believe that nurses have a legal responsibility and a moral obligation to keep patients alive not to help them commit suicide.

What do you think about euthanasia and are you for it or against it.

Caleb12, after reading these responses, what say you now?

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Specializes in Neuro, Telemetry.
I'm very glad you had a chance to see death. I am also very sad to see your description of this resident in agony! Where was the morphine? She should not have suffered like this.

OP: as has been stated, you will get some real live experiences once you're a nurse and your perspective will change. If a patient has made an informed decision to end their life due to illness that is not treatable, I am fine with it.

(Mental illness is going to be the big debate in this subject, in my opinion.)

My description was poory worded. I don't believe she was actually in agony. Her facial expression was just that. She had an IV. Her vitals were monitored and he was being given morphine regularly.

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It appears that having gotten enough material for his paper, Caleb12 has left the building.

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It appears that having gotten enough material for his paper, Caleb12 has left the building.

Either that or he was just trolling through to begin with ;)

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Specializes in Emergency, ICU.
My description was poory worded. I don't believe she was actually in agony. Her facial expression was just that. She had an IV. Her vitals were monitored and he was being given morphine regularly.

Well, as a hospice nurse I still think your descriptions of the patient do not point to a well managed death. Not your fault at all, it's just what happens when a patient is in a hospital setting without hospice care on board. Morphing Q 4 hours is not good care and that's the kind of order I encounter and doctors are surprised when we suggest changing the dose and the timing to Q 1 hour to start. They do not know how to handle it, they're scared of it, and so patients suffer. Oh well, off my soapbox ;)

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