An ethical dilemma: mine, yours or ours?

Title: An ethical dilemma: mine, yours or ours?
Creator: Sneesby, Ludmilla
Relation: HNE Handover for Nurses and Midwives Vol. 1, Issue 2, p. 21-24
Relation: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/nursing-midwifery
Publisher: University of Newcastle, Hunter New England NSW Health, University of New England
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
Description: This paper presents a challenging case study that not only raises issues of the ethical and legal obligations of health care workers, and the rights of terminally ill patients to refuse or reject treatment, but actually changed practice with the formulation of procedures and guidelines about self-harm and the wider issue of euthanasia and the responsibilities of health care workers in such cases. At the time of his attempted suicide, Bernie (pseudonym) was a patient of the Palliative Care Program of the Mater Misericordiae Hospital. In extreme cases (such as that of Bernie, the patient in this case study) the right to or to attempt to take their own life is the basis for discussion.
Subject: self-harm; ethics; euthanasia; terminally ill patients
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/42837
Identifier: uon:4983
Language: eng

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