Unchittha Tipayavongvijit. Nursing ethical guideline in caring of terminal cancer patients . Master's Degree(Medical and Public Health Law Administration). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2006.
Nursing ethical guideline in caring of terminal cancer patients
Abstract:
The objective of this study was to set up nursing ethical guidelines for
caring for terminal cancer patients using the EDFR (Ethographic Delphi Futures
Research). The sample group consisted of a total of 32 experts in caring for terminal
cancer patients, experts in medical law and public health, and experts in moral
problems concering care of terminal cancer patients.
Basic ethical principles of health care such as the respect for person,
beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice or fairness were used as guidelines for
caring for terminal cancer patients in 6 key areas 1) Proper pain handling.;
2) Veracity/truth telling where relatives desired to withhold information from
patients.; 3) Carrying out treatments at proceding believed not to in patients in treat.;
4) Prolonged life.; 5) Stopping treatments.; 6) Preparing the advance directives by
evaluating the conditions of patients and relatives such as level of awareness,
understanding in disease diagnosis and prediction, coordinating patients and
relatives to discuss with treatment team for joint planning, respecting the patients
decision and recording the treatment on the written basis.
This study offered a suggestion that these constructed guidelines should
be tested to find out possible applications in Thailand’s context.