Assisted dying (Resolution)

One hand on top of another person's hand. The image is slightly out of focus and oddly coloured. Submitted by the RCN Wales Board.
That this meeting of RCN Congress asks RCN Council to review the 2014 RCN position statement on assisted dying.

More information can be found on the RCN Congress pages: https://www.rcn.org.uk/congress/agenda-2022

Please see below for some relevant resources you might like to look at ahead of the debate.

Reading List - Assisted dying (Resolution)

Journal articles
Reports and Publications

Borovecki A et. al. (2022) Attitudes about withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and physician assisted suicide: a cross-sectional survey among the general public in Croatia, BMC Medical Ethics, 23(1), p. 13.
Evans N (2021) When a patient asks for help to die, Nursing Standard, 36(12), pp. 22–24.
Freeman L A et. al. (2020) Investigating palliative care nurse attitudes towards medical assistance in dying: An exploratory cross‐sectional study, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 76(2), pp. 535–545.
Gamondi C et al (2019) Family members’ experiences of assisted dying: A systematic literature review with thematic synthesis, Palliative Medicine, 33(8), pp. 1091–1105.
Gerson S M et al (2019) When is hastened death considered suicide? A systematically conducted literature review about palliative care professionals’ experiences where assisted dying is legal, BMC Palliative Care, 18(1), pp. 75–13.
Holt J (2019) Nurses’ attitudes to euthanasia eleven years on: Has anything changed?, Nursing Philosophy, 20(3).
Hurley R (2020) Assisted dying: your vote counts, BMJ, 368, m646.
Pesut B et al (2019) Ethical, Policy, and Practice Implications of Nursesʼ Experiences With Assisted Death: A Synthesis, Advances in Nursing Science, 42(3), pp. 216–230.
Pesut B et al (2020) The rocks and hard places of MAiD: a qualitative study of nursing practice in the context of legislated assisted death, BMC Nursing, 19, p. 1.
Riddle C A (2017) Assisted Dying & Disability, Bioethics, 31(6), pp. 484–489.
Rimmer A (2020) Assisted dying: RCGP continues to oppose change in law after polling members, BMJ, 368, m708.
Thiele T and Dunsford J (2019) Nurse leaders’ role in medical assistance in dying: A relational ethics approach, Nursing Ethics, 26(4), pp. 993–999.
Willis D (2017) Conscientious objection - a way out for assisted suicide or a non-starter?, International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 23(6), pp. 306–307.
Wilson Michael, Wilson Marie, Edwards S, Cusack L and Wiechula R (2021) Role of attitude in nurses’ responses to requests for assisted dying, Nursing Ethics, 28(5), pp. 670–686.
Wilson M R et. al. (2020) Nurses’ intentions to respond to requests for legal assisted‐dying: A Q‐methodological study, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 76(2), pp. 642–653.

NHS (2018) Euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Rehmann-Sutter C, Gudat H and Ohnsorge K (eds.) (2015) The patient’s wish to die: research, ethics, and palliative care. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Royal College of Nursing (2014) RCN position statement on assisted dying.
Royal College of Nursing (2016) When someone asks for your assistance to die.