HOUSTON: A palliative care nurse is urging her colleagues to oppose legalising assisted suicide, as it would compromise the values of the profession and could have devastating consequences for vulnerable people.
She warned other nurses that assisting someone to commit suicide is not a form of care, and contradicts the crucial principle of doing no harm.
“The public needs to be able to trust that the nursing profession is based upon sound ethical principles to which its members adhere.
“A nurse with a dual role in promoting ‘living and dying well’ meanwhile also helping to hasten death could have serious consequences for his/her reputation as a trusted caregiver”, she said…