Nurses’ attitudes to euthanasia eleven years on: Has anything changed?

Holt, J.

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“…The trajectory of research on nurses' overall participation in assisted dying has posited attitude as a primary determinant of involvement. 14 Attitude is often expressed as an agreement with or willingness to participate in legal assisted dying and is usually described in relation to demographic features. 15,16 A systematic review of studies of nurses' motivations to participate in some form of assisted dying showed that willingness was often a function of clinical speciality, previous experience with assisted dying and the patient's condition or prognosis.…”

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Role of attitude in nurses’ responses to requests for assisted dying

Wilson

Edwards³

et al. 2020

Nurs Ethics

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Background: Legal assisted dying is a rare event, but as legalisation expands, requests for it will likely increase, and the nurse most often receives the informal, initial request. Objectives: To assess the effects of attitude in interaction with normative and control beliefs on an intention to respond to a request for legal assisted dying. Ethical considerations: The study had the lead author’s institutional ethics approval, and participants were informed that participation was both anonymous and voluntary. Methodology: This was a cross-sectional correlational study of 377 Australian registered nurses who completed an online survey. Generalised linear modelling assessed the effects of independent variables against intended responses to requests for legal assisted dying. Results: Compared to nurses who did not support legal assisted dying, nurses who did had stronger beliefs in patient rights, perceived social expectations to refer the request and stronger control in that intention. Nurses who did not support legal assisted dying had stronger beliefs in ethics of duty to the patient and often held dual intentions to discuss the request with the patient but also held an intention to deflect the request to consideration of alternatives. Discussion: This study advances the international literature by developing quantified models explaining the complexity of nurses’ experiences with requests for an assisted death. Attitude was operationalised in interaction with other beliefs and was identified as the strongest influence on intentions, but significantly moderated by ethical norms. Conclusion: The complex of determinants of those intentions to respond to requests for an assisted death suggests they are not isolated from each other. Nurses might have distinct intentions, but they can also hold multiple intentions even when they prioritise one. These findings present opportunities to prepare nurses in a way that enhances moral resilience in the face of complex moral encounters.

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Role of attitude in nurses’ responses to requests for assisted dying

Wilson

Edwards³

et al. 2020

Nurs Ethics

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“…50 Attitudes toward euthanasia can change. 68 In a study in Finland, a comparison of physicians' attitudes toward accelerating the death of patients showed that after 16 years euthanasia was blamed less. 63 The relative change in attitudes found in the present study compared to previous studies in Iran is an indication that, similar to the Finland experience, time can change how euthanasia is perceived.…”

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“…Attitudes toward euthanasia can change 68. In a study in Finland, a comparison of physicians' attitudes toward accelerating the death of patients showed that after 16 years euthanasia was blamed less 63.…”

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The Attitude of Iranian Critical Care Nurses Toward Euthanasia

Zeydi¹,

Ghazanfari²,

Fast³

et al. 2022

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

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Today, one of the major ethical challenges facing the world's health care system, and in particular nurses in the intensive care unit, is euthanasia or death out of pity. The aim of this study was to investigate the attitude of Iranian nurses in the intensive care unit toward euthanasia. This was an analytical cross-sectional study using census sampling. The data collection tool was the Euthanasia Attitude Scale. A total of 206 nurses working in the intensive care unit in 4 hospitals in the Mazandaran province of Iran were included in this study. The mean of total Euthanasia Attitude Scale score in intensive care unit nurses was 2.96. The mean euthanasia dimensions were ethical consideration, practical considerations, treasuring life, and naturalistic beliefs, 3.03, 2.92, 2.98, and 2.99, respectively. There was significant but low negative correlation between age and total Euthanasia Attitude Scale score, ethical considerations, and practical considerations. Male nurses exhibited significantly higher Euthanasia Attitude Scale scores, specifically in regard to ethical and practical considerations compared with female nurses. The most Iranian nurses in the intensive care unit had a negative attitude toward euthanasia for patients in the later stages of the disease. However, this opposition was less than similar studies in Iran in the past.

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Nurses’ attitudes to euthanasia eleven years on: Has anything changed?

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Role of attitude in nurses’ responses to requests for assisted dying

Role of attitude in nurses’ responses to requests for assisted dying

The Attitude of Iranian Critical Care Nurses Toward Euthanasia

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