The ethics of withdrawing artificial food and fluid from terminally ill patients: An end-of-life dilemma for Japanese nurses and families

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 7-19

  Konishi, Emiko ^a   j Davis, Anne ^a   Aiba, Toshiaki ^a  

^a NAGANO COLLEGE OF NURSING   (Japan)

Author keywords

family; Japanese nurses; terminally ill patients; withdrawing artificial food and fluid

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JAPAN; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ETHICS, NURSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PARENTERAL NUTRITION, TOTAL; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0742289297     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0969733002ne477oa     Document Type: Article

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