Plastic surgical nursing : official journal of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgical Nurses
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Practice Guideline Guideline
American Nurses Association position statement on promotion of comfort and relief of pain in dying patients.
Nurses 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.