These ethical guidelines help nurses address moral dilemmas that may arise in areas like end-of-lifecare, patient consent, and confidentiality. Nursing ethics promotes the delivery of fair and compassionatecare while maintaining the profession’s integrity. Feb 14, 2025 · This article reviews the different paradigms, from the medico-legal, ethical, social, psychological and end-of-lifecare and support perspectives that constitute the global approach to end-of-lifecare. Oct 13, 2025 · Palliative and hospice care both focus on improving the quality of life of people with serious illness. In a Q&A, Shelli Feder discusses the future of compassionatecare in the U.S. — and what it means to have a “good death.” In order to provide the highest quality end-of-lifecare, clinicians have to both recognize and reconcile the complex patient and physician factors influencing the dying experience. This issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics aims to explore each of these factors and their critical implications for care at the end of life. Sep 4, 2024 · Compassion in Dying adopts an approach that rightly recognises we need both. Yes, we need to change the conversation. But we also need to re-examine how end-of-life decisions are made and communicated. Apr 24, 2023 · The central philosophical question in end-of-lifecare is how to make decisions surrounding the numerous choices about what treatments to administer, taper off, cease, or withhold at the end of life. Jul 9, 2024 · Through narrative synthesis, we meticulously evaluated the ethical challenges encountered in nursing practices, particularly in end-of-lifecare, and the various palliative careapproaches employed.
