Nurse Involvement in the Care for Patients Requesting Euthanasia

Nele De Bal; Bernadette Dierckx de Casterlé; Chris Gastmans

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Nurse Involvement in the Care for Patients Requesting Euthanasia

In: Dying, Assisted Death and Mourning

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Nele De Bal

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Bernadette Dierckx de Casterlé

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Chris Gastmans

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Pages:: 71–96

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789042028807_006

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Empirical Ethics occupies an increasingly major place in the health care ethics field. Rather than applying ethical theories to concrete ethical conflicts, the attempt is made to elaborate the values and norms already present in clinical practice. In this research project, the empirical turn in Ethics is applied to the theme of nurse involvement in euthanasia. Because of their patient-centred orientation and expertise, nurses are frequently confronted with euthanasia requests. Since September 2002, euthanasia is legally regulated in Belgium and nurses can anticipate being confronted more often with one or more aspects of the euthanasia process (notifying request, decision-making process, life-terminating action, aftercare). Our Empirical Ethics study aims to clarify nurses’ real involvement in the care process for patients requesting euthanasia in Flemish hospitals. Founding on individual in-depth interviews with nurses from a variety of practice settings (aged care, palliative care, oncology, internal medicine) in one of the selected general hospitals, the study will implement a grounded theory approach to data-analysis, in order to get a balanced picture of the way in which and the extent to which nurses are actually involved in euthanasia. These results will facilitate the development of ethical guidelines that serve for positively orienting nurse involvement in euthanasia. This positive trend will continue in the ethically responsible development of palliative care practice.

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Dying, Assisted Death and Mourning

Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, Volume: 58

E-Book ISBN:: 9789042028807

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2009

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