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Title: Implications of assisted dying for nursing practice
Authors: Wareing, M
Keywords: assisted dying;assisted suicide;nursing practice
Issue Date: 16-Jan-2025
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Citation: Wareing, M. (2025) 'Implications of assisted dying for nursing practice', Nursing Ethics, 32 (2), pp. 373 - 384. doi: 10.1177/09697330251314096.
Abstract: This conceptual paper considers the practice implications of assisted dying for contemporary nursing practice within the United Kingdom in response to the publication of a parliamentary report leading to a private members’ bill that will form the basis of a debate and possible change in legislation. A recurring theme within the nursing research is how nurses should respond to patients expressing an interest or making a request for assisted dying. This paper explores contemporary evidence and argues that the procedure of assisted dying is a complex (manifold) and puzzling (paradoxical) practice. The UK nursing profession may replicate recent healthcare catastrophes if the response to a proposal for assisted dying is based on a technical-rational stance, or if nurses merely coalesce around a single determinant such as patient autonomy. The paper presents two nursing communicative interventions that seek to address how to respond to a patient request for an assisted death that foregrounds the preferences and personhood of the patient whilst providing opportunities for enquiry-based approaches to enhance nursing responses to intractable suffering.
Description: Author note: This article is based on a presentation delivered at the 24th International Nursing Ethics Conference, Brunel University of London on the 30th August 2024.
URI: https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/30766
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/09697330251314096
ISSN: 0969-7330
Other Identifiers: ORCiD: Mark Wareing https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0968-5558
Appears in Collections:Dept of Health Sciences Research Papers

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