An international perspective of active euthanasia: attitudes of nurses in seven countries
| Autor: | Elizabeth Pitman, Miriam Hirschfield, Astrid Norberg, Anne J. Davis, L. Ziv, Linda R. Phillips, Ju Ying Lin, Hui Lan Zhang, Rika Vander Laan, Chang Hui Shen, Bonnie Davidson, Sirkka Lauri |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Canada China Nursing staff Internationality Attitude of Health Personnel animal diseases education Exploratory research Nursing Staff Hospital Nursing Neoplasms Ethics Nursing Medicine Humans Euthanasia Active Voluntary Israel General Nursing Finland Sweden business.industry Social perception Euthanasia Public health Perspective (graphical) Australia Middle Aged humanities United States Religion Nursing Supervisory Euthanasia Active Structured interview Dementia business Stress Psychological |
| Zdroj: | International journal of nursing studies. 30(4) |
| ISSN: | 0020-7489 |
| Popis: | This exploratory study examines the ethical justification that cancer care and dementia care nurses gave for active voluntary euthanasia. A convenient sample of 319 nurses working in seven countries was interviewed using a structured interview guide. The great majority of the nurses could not ethically justify active voluntary euthanasia. Even if the law changed, only 96 of the total sample viewed active voluntary euthanasia as ethical. For those nurses who could ethically justify active voluntary euthanasia, the majority did so because of the patients' suffering. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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