Ethics in Action: a Woman With Terminal Bone Cancer has Asked her Physician to Help end her Life. What Would you do?

In this hypothetical case, a woman with terminal bone cancer has asked her physician to help end her life. He plans to lend assistance. The question that is asked of nurses is: if the doctor asks you to make a lethal drug available to the patient, what would you do? Arguments for and against assisted suicide are reviewed & a discussion of where nurses fit inin the assisted suicide debate is presented. (4 refs.)