Legal and Ethical Aspects of Care

Edited by Nessa Coyle and Series edited by Betty R. Ferrell

HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals

This volume covers the spectrum of ethical and legal considerations in palliative and end-of-life care
Highlights nurses' role are the center of the palliative care team
Published in conjunction with the Hospice and Palliative Nursing Association
Includes questions for self-assessment

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Care

Edited by Nessa Coyle and Series edited by Betty R. Ferrell

HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals

Description

Effective palliative care that rests on a sound ethical foundation requires ongoing discussions about patient and family values and preferences. This is especially important when addressing care at end-of-life including artificial nutrition and hydration, withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies and palliative sedation as well as requests for assistance in hastening death. The eighth volume in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series, Legal and Ethical Aspects of Palliative Care, provides an overview of critical communication skills and formal organizational mechanisms, such as ethics committees and interdisciplinary rounds, required for decisions in ethical dilemmas which respect diversity in the views of colleagues, as well as patients. The content of the concise, clinically focused volumes in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series is one resource for nurses preparing for specialty certification exams and provides a quick-reference in daily practice.

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Care

Edited by Nessa Coyle and Series edited by Betty R. Ferrell

HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals

Chapter 1
Ethical Considerations in Palliative Care

Chapter 2
Palliative Care and Requests for Assistance in Dying

Chapter 3
Artificial Nutrition and Hydration

Chapter 4
End-of-Life Care for Patients with Medical Illness and Personality Disorders

Chapter 5
Poor, Homeless and Underserved Populations

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Care

Edited by Nessa Coyle and Series edited by Betty R. Ferrell

HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals

Author Information

Nessa Coyle is a palliative care and clinical oncology ethics consultant in New York, New York.

Contributors:

Barbara J. Daly, PhD, RN, FAAN
The Gertrude Perkins Oliva Professor of Oncology Nursing
Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
Case Western Reserve University
University Hospitals of Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio

Marianne Matzo, PhD, GNP-BC, FPCN. FAAN
Professor and Frances E. and A. Earl Ziegler Chair in Palliative Care Nursing
Director, Sooner Palliative Care Institute
University of Oklahoma College of Nursing
Director, Survivorship and Supportive Care Center
Adjunct Professor of Geriatric Medicine
Peggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer Center
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Anne Hughes, RN, ACHPN, PhD, FAAN
Advanced Practice Nurse
Palliative Care Service
Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center
San Francisco, California

Betty D. Morgan, PhD, PMHCNS, BC
Associate Professor Emeritus
School of Nursing, College of Health Sciences
University of Massachusetts
Lowell, Massachusetts

Maryjo Prince-Paul, PhD, APRN, ACHPN, FPCN
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio

Deborah L. Volker, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN
Associate Professor of Nursing
School of Nursing
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas