Nursing perspectives on practitioner-assisted suicide

Nursing Outlook

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 116-119

  Wurzbach, Mary Ellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSISTED SUICIDE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; POLICY; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

ETHICS, NURSING; HUMANS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PUBLIC POLICY; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034182819     PISSN: 00296554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mno.2000.100944     Document Type: Article

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