• Plast Surg Nurs · Jan 1992

    Practice Guideline Guideline

    American Nurses Association position statement on promotion of comfort and relief of pain in dying patients.

    • S J Hockenberg.
    • Plast Surg Nurs. 1992 Jan 1;12(1):32, 36.

    AbstractNurses should not hesitate to use full and effective doses of pain medication for the proper management of pain in the dying patient. The increasing titration of medication to achieve adequate symptom control, even at the expense of life, thus hastening death secondarily, is ethically justified.

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