... to Patients" Feelings, and Planning Follow-Through.11 Respect for patient autonomy is an important principle, but caregivers also have autonomy. When the Oregon physician-assisted suicide statute became law, nurses opposed to suicide on moral grounds were concerned about their ability to exercise their professional autonomy without abandoning their patient. In response, the Oregon Nurses Association drew up a policy ... clarifying the nurses" rights and responsibilities under the law. The association's White Paper on Assisted Suicide provides guidelines for ethically withdrawing from a ...

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